I thank steemit ghana for this second opportunity on ghanaian folktales. I thank @oppongk,@steemitcurator01,@menak and @njwan for their guidelines. Todays folktale is why the cat kills rat.
Why The Cat Kills Rat
Once upon a time there lived a king in a town called Calabar. This king had lived there for fifty years. He was having a very faithfull cat as a housekeeper and a rat was a house boy. The king was having a stored who had worked there for so many years.
The rat who was very poor,fell in love with one of the kings servant girls,but was unable to gave her any presents,as he had no money.
At last he thought of the kings store,so in the night time,being quite small l,he had little difficulty having made a hole in the roof,in getting into the store. He then stole corn and native pears,and presented them to his sweetheart.At the end of the month when the cat had to render her account of the things in the store to the king, it was found that a lot of corn and native pears were missing l. The king was very angry at this and asked the cat for an explanation.
But the cat could not account for the loss,until one of her ffriends told her that the rat had been stealing the corn and giving it to the girl. When the cat told the king he called the girl before him and had her flogged. The rat he handed over to the cat to deal with and dismissed them both from his service. The cat was so angry at this that she killed and ate the rat l,and ever since that time whenever a cat sees a rat she kills and eats it.
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