34. Ijapa (Tortoise) and Ojola (Python)

In Lagoni, Ijapa, and a Python, Ojola are very good friends and neighbours, but    have never eaten at each other’s house.  Ojola loves his food, and does not like sharing it with anyone, so even if he invites you to eat with him, he uses a ploy to make sure that you eat hardly anything.

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In Lagoni, Ijapa, and a Python, Ojola are very good friends and neighbours, but    have never eaten at each other’s house.  Ojola loves his food, and does not like sharing it with anyone, so even if he invites you to eat with him, he uses a ploy to make sure that you eat hardly anything.

One day, Ijapa comes unexpectedly across Yannibo, his estranged wife, and they get together again.  Yannibo is a very good cook, and Ojola envious of the delicious meals that he knows his friend is now enjoying, suddenly decides that it is about time he and Ijapa start eating at each other’s house.  This is put into practice, even though Ojola uses the ploy to make sure that Ijapa eats hardly anything.  Then Ojola meets and marries someone who is a good cook, and his interest in eating at Ijapa’s vanishes, until he is challenged by Ijapa and forced to invite him unexpectedly to a favourite  meal that he is looking forward to eating alone.

Ojola puts his ploy into full force and Ijapa ends up eating nothing.  Ijapa,  upset and offended by Ojola’s treatment of him, decides to pay him back in his own coin.

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