I will have to wait until I am thin again.”Īnansi sat down on a pile of melon seeds and waited to get thin. He didn’t fit! The hole was big enough for a thin spider, but much too small for a fat one. It is time to go.”īut when he tried to squeeze through the hole, Anansi had a surprise. He ate and ate until he was as round as a berry. Anansi squeezed inside and started eating. He used the thorn to bore a hole in the biggest, ripest melon. He broke off a thorn and dropped down into the melon patch. Here was the moment Anansi had been waiting for. Elephant put down his hoe and went inside his house to take a nap. By the time noon came, it was too hot to work. So he sat up in the thorn tree, watching and waiting, while the sun rose high in the sky and the day grew warm. The ripe melons seemed to call out to Anansi, “Look how juicy and sweet we are! Come eat us!”Īnansi loved to eat melons, but he was much too lazy to grow them himself. One fine morning Anansi the Spider sat high up in a thorn tree looking down into Elephant’s garden. Anansi and the Talking Melon retold by Eric A.
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