The Most Foolish Bird
There is a very foolish bird called Ngune. That’s the name in my native Embu language – I don’t know its English name.
The bird feeds on frogs, and the highlight of its foolishness is that it spends the whole day catching frogs from the river and placing them on a rock on the riverbed (perhaps to dry them) so that it can eat them later.
The stupid thing about it is that whenever it places a frog on the river bed and gets back to the river to get another one, the frog immediately jumps back to the river, and chances are that it will pick the same frog in the following catch. This goes on for some time. At the end of the hunting period, the foolish bird carries home just one frog after laboring for a long time.
To help this bird, we’ve come up with a plan. We are going to send someone into species travel, be laid as a Ngune egg and hatched into a Ngune chick, and grow to eat frogs. By speaking fluent Ngune-ese, he will teach other Ngunes that they need to eat the first frog they catch before attempting to catch another one. The only message – “Eat. The. Frog. First.”
However, we can’t promise anything. There is no pay. We don’t know if the Ngunes will believe you. We can’t assure you that you will be safe from crocodiles, foxes, polluted rivers, or even die of hunger in case rivers run out of frogs or climate change gets rid of frogs. Besides, the Ngunes might not believe you.
Can we get a volunteer, please?
Nyambura Ndungu
December 10, 2018I’m volunteering Sylvia atieno
Kevin
December 7, 2019🤣🤣🤣🤣 Not me
JOHN
December 24, 2019Wow,I think this story is a great illustration of the season we are celebrating too..Christ send to us..so that we don’t labour in vain in trying to cleanse ourselves 😊