The Leopard and the Sky God

In this lovely African tale, set long, long ago, the leopard has a splendid new drum- and the Sky God wants it.

          Long ago, the animals lived in the forest. High up above lived the Sky God. One day, the Sky God heard a wonderful sound. Leopard playing a great big drum. He wanted to play this drum, so he asked leopard to lent it. However leopard didn’t lend it. He was helped to python and elephant, but they didn’t succeed. Finally, tortoise tried. Now in those days the tortoise had no shell, only a little soft body.
she talked with leopard, and she can get drum!  

tortoise: 亀
leopard: ヒョウ
roar: 叫ぶ

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