ABSTRACT
THE Hausas are extremely fond of tales and proverbs, and almost every well-known animal and nearly every trade or profession is represented in the folk-lore of the people. Certain favourites of English children will be found to have their representatives in the Hausa stories; in fact, there seems to be very little which is absolutely strange to the student of anthropology, and here and there examples have been quoted to show that similar stories exist in one part of the globe or the other, the cast of characters being altered to suit local requirements.
