39. “Wheni o-laana te ikpwa, ove-ye oma Ewese a-mbe-lele anga”.

There are times of abundance and times of scarcity.

Fables of  of the Animal World.

Yasi nanu:  Ewese was a thief. In broad daylight he would steal a calabash of palm wine from friends who were in the course of drinking the wine. Again, in broad daylight, Ewese would steal fish in the market when a trader was engaged in a discussion with a customer. Ewese's notoriety was a serious force to be reckoned with in the Animal World.

During the years of a long civil war when salt (ikpwa) was scarce Ewese visited the home of Kaava  Nyame in the afternoon and managed to steal from that home salt in a clay pot (livanya) that the wife of Kaava  Nyame had hidden behind the shelf over the fire place (o-mbusa  wokao)

It was not until after nightfall when the wife of Kaava  Nyame was in the course of preparing soup that she realised that the clay pot (livanya) and the salt (ikpwa) had disappeared.