African folk stories: stories of people who never lie

there's a smart guy, his name is mamad.

all of us in this country, even a thousand miles away, know this very well.

the king heard of this man, and ordered him to come.

when the king looked at him, he asked, "mamad, it's true that you never lied?" "really!" "are you ever going to lie?" "i believe it!" "well, tell the truth." but you have to be careful that lies are so subtle that they can drill people's tongues more easily than truth." a few days later, the king called him again.

on that day, the king gathered many people to hunt.

and he grabbed the horse, and he put his foot on the horse, and he said to mamad, "you go to the summer palace on my mountain and tell the queen that i'm going to her at noon, get her ready, treat me well, and i'm going to ask you to eat with me." mamad bowed to the king and went to the queen.

king ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! but then the smart man said to the queen, "maybe you don't have to prepare anything, maybe you should prepare a good lunch.

the king may or may not come at noon." "so, do you think he's coming or not coming?" when the king spoke to me, he did not know whether his right foot on the ground had fallen on the horse's horse, nor did he know if his left foot on the horse's horse had fallen down.” everyone was anxiously waiting for the king in the summer palace, but the king came the next day.

he said to the queen, "a smart man who never lied, did he come here yesterday to lie to you?" the queen told the king what mamadé had said.

it was then that the king believed that the wise man had indeed never lied.

he saw what he said。