🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 43

But the chief replied, “You said that it was the proper custom to bury dead bodies in sleeping-mats, so we took yours to bury the dead slave in.

Who acts: chief, You, we · What happens: reply, say, be, bury, take · To what, where: proper custom, dead bodies, sleeping mats, yours, dead slave · Speech: someone speaks here

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