Tale: RAOGO AND POKO

TONDE ELODIE

OUEDRAOGO ALIX

OUEDRAOGO RASMATA

KABORE EUPHRASIE

LOUGUE BLANDINE

ZOURE LYDIA

TELL :

RAOGO AND POKO

In a village a woman and her two children lived: Raogo and Poko.she loved much her daughter Poko and preferred her with the boy. He was always beaten. Raogo was really unhappy. His sister took pleasure ale of making suffer,his mother thundered it the every day. And he was to do the most painful work. Like meal, one gave him only the remainders. The night, he was to sleep with the animals. However, Raogo was kind and obeying. Inspite of his suffering, he did not say anything and all people of the village admired his courage. One day, while returning from the fields, Raogo sees a viper which tests to enter a house. he takes a stick then and continues the animal to kill it. But he is not fast enough and the viper succeeds in slipping into the trunk of a baobab tree. Raogo do not give up. He plunges his hand in the hollow of tree for to catch. He seeks a little everywhere. Suddenly, he feels something of hard under his fingers. It withdraws his arm of the hole of the tree, and which does see? his hand is full however! Of return to the house, Raogo, very happy tells his adventure to his mother. He shows her his treasure. Poko, which is very jealous, starts to cry:

- Raogo will be richer than me! I need also however, mum. Then, the mother takes however of Raogo and gives it to her daughter while saying:

- Hold! All this gold belongs. And you will still have some.It is now your turn to go to seek some in the hollow of the baobab tree. You will have; has to plunge the hand there, like your brother.

Go ahead quickly! Poko does not wait a minute more. She moves straight towards the baobab tree. As of she arrived, she plunges her two hands in the hole. She starts to seek: nothing! Abruptly, she howls and fall on the ground. Her mother runs at once but it is already too late: the viper bit the hand of the girl and this one died on the blow. Instead of golt it is the poison of the snake that Poko had like reward. Raogo is then very rich. All the inhabitants of the village advise to him to drive out his malicious mother, but Raogo is so kind he prefers to keep it close to him, in the pretty house that he has made build. It has so many qualities! he is shown so generous with all people; after the death of the chief, it is him which is indicated to replace him.

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