the little voice again.

The gorilla leaped to his feet and rummaged around the pots and the
baskets, took hold of the bodies one after another and dashed them
against the floor, then went to every house and searched, but could not
discover who it was that mocked him.

In a short time he returned and ate a pile of bananas that would have
satisfied twenty men, and afterwards he went out, saying to himself that
it would be a good thing to fill the nest with food, as it was a bore to
leave the warm nest each time he felt a desire to eat.

No sooner had he departed than Kinneneh slipped down, and carried every
bunch that had been left away to his own house, where they were stowed
in the loft for his mother, and after enjoining his mother to remain
still, he waited, peering through the chinks of the door.

He soon saw Gorilla bearing a pile of bunches that would have required
ten men to carry, and after flinging them into the chief's house, return
to the plantation for another supply. While Gorilla was tearing down
the plants and plucking at the bunches, Kinneneh was actively engaged in
transferring what he brought into the loft by his mother's side.
Gorilla made many trips in this manner, and brought in great heaps, but
somehow his stock appeared to be very small. At last his strength was
exhausted, and feeling that he could do no more that day, he commenced
to feed on what he had last brought, promising to himself that he would
do better in the morning.

At dawn the gorilla hastened out to obtain a supply of fruit for his
breakfast, and Kinneneh took advantage of his absence to hide himself
overhead.

He was not long in his place before Gorilla came in with a huge lot of
ripe fruit, and after making himself comfortable on his haunches with a
great bunch before him he rocked himself to and fro, saying while he
munched:

"Ha, ha! Now I have plenty again, and I shall eat it all myself. Ha,
ha!"

"Ha, ha," echoed a thin voice again, so close and clear it seemed to
him, that leaping up he made sure to catch it. As there appeared to be
no one in the house, he rushed out raging, champing his teeth, and
searched the other houses, but meantime Kinneneh carried the bananas to
the loft of the gorilla's house, and covered them with bark-cloth.

In a short time Gorilla returned furious and disappointed, and sat down
to finish the breakfast he had only begun, but on putting out his hands
he found only the withered peeli