Then about guesses. I have tried to pick out one or two just to let you hear what like they are. Many of the answers to riddles I have heard seemed to me to have little or no point in them. So it is with the stories. But when I have failed to see the joke and have not laughed the black boys have not failed. They have their own funny stories and laugh at them heartily. But our jokes they do not understand, nor do they play pranks on one another as white boys do. Let me try to tell you how you can make black boys and girls roar with laughter, and yet to a white man there is nothing to laugh about. If you are telling them about people scattering helter-skelter and say that the people, “nalimenya,” which means go off helter-skelter, the boys will go into fits of laughter. Now I can see nothing to laugh at in this, and I am sure you can’t either, and, if another word had been used, neither would the black boy. But here is the peculiar thing. It is the “li” in the middle of the word that makes it funny to African children here. “Menya” means “beat,” but “_li_menya” means “run off helter-skelter.” Again “Sesa” means “sweep,” but “_li_sesa” means “run off helter-skelter;” and so on with a lot of other words, the addition of the syllable “li” makes them change their meanings entirely, and become “run off helter-skelter,” and so very funny that black boys and girls cannot keep from laughing. Now for the guesses:-- “What is yonder and here at the same time?” _Answer_--A shadow. “I built a house with one post.” _Answer_--A mushroom. “It goes yonder yet remains here.” _Answer_--A belt. “I had a big garden, yet got no food from it.” _Answer_--The hair of the head. “I built my house without any door.” _Answer_--An egg. “My hen laid an egg among thorns.” _Answer_--The tongue and the teeth. I think you will understand these answers to the above guesses, but what do you think of this one? “In my mother’s house there is money.” _Answer_--Baldness. I am certain you and I would never have thought of such an answer. Here are one or two of their proverbs:-- “Sleep knows no friendship, has no favourite.” “If your neighbour’s beard takes fire, quench it;” which latter means-- “Help your neighbour now, for some day you may need help.” By means of these guesses the African children while away the time and amuse themselves on wet days or on cold nights round the fire by asking them from one another. Now let me close this chapter by telling you the story of THE RABBIT, THE LION, AND THE WILD PIG