ngs of yesterday's bananas. He looked
and rummaged about, but there was positively nothing left to eat. He
was now terribly hungry and angry, and he bounded out to obtain another
supply, which he brought in and flung on the floor, saying,

"Ha, ha! I will now eat the whole at once--all to myself, and that
other thing which says, `Ha, ha!' after me, I will hunt and mash him
like this," and he seized a ripe banana and squeezed it with his paw
with so much force that the pulp was squirted all over him. "Ha, ha!"
he cried.

"Ha, ha!" mocked the shrill voice, so clear that it appeared to come
from behind his ear.

This was too much to bear; Gorilla bounded up and vented a roar of rage.
He tossed the pots, the baskets, the bodies, and bed-grass about--
bellowing so loudly and funnily in his fury that Kinneneh, away up in
the loft, could scarcely forbear imitating him. But the mocker could
not be found, and Gorilla roared loudly in the open place before the
village, and tore in and out of each house, looking for him.

Kinneneh descended swiftly from his hiding-place, and bore every banana
into the loft as before.

Gorilla hastened to the plantation again, and so angry was he that he
uprooted the banana-stalks by the root, and snapped off the clusters
with one stroke of his great dog-teeth, and having got together a large
stock, he bore it in his arms to the house.

"There," said he, "ha, ha! Now I shall eat in comfort and have a long
sleep afterwards, and if that fellow who mocks me comes near--ah! I
would"--and he crushed a big bunch in his arms and cried, "ha, ha!"

"Ha, ha! Ha, ha!" cried the mocking voice; and again it seemed to be at
the back of his head. Whereupon Gorilla flung his arms behind in the
hope of catching him, but there was nothing but his own back, which
sounded like a damp drum with the stroke.

"Ha, ha! Ha, ha!" repeated the voice, at which Gorilla shot out of the
door, and raced round the house, thinking that the owner was flying
before him, but he never could overtake the flyer. Then he went around
outside of the other houses, and flew round and round the village, but
he could discover naught. But meanwhile Kinneneh had borne all the
stock of bananas up into the loft above, and when Gorilla returned there
was not one banana of all the great pile he had brought left on the
floor.

When, after he was certain that there was not a single bit of a banana
left for him to eat, he scratche