281 Kikuyu Proverbs / Page 11
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The ram that is shown around is not fat.202.
The rambling pole-cat leaves its house when there is banquet.203.
The rich man cannot be prevented from cyltivating the 'iganjo' he wants.204.
The river is crossed where it is shallow.205.
The sky is heavy with rain, but does not come.206.
The sleeping dog is turned by a stick.207.
The son does not cut his finger in cutting meat for his father.208.
The son of the leopard scratches like its mother.209.
The song of a stranger-woman is answered after she has gone.210.
The song that has no leader, goes wrong.211.
The stream does not pass over an old stone.212.
The timid ox drinks muddy watr.213.
The tooth laughs with the lance.214.
The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.215.
The vulture perches on the trees because it does not feel sure on the groung.216.
The war of the eyes never comes to an end.217.
The war that has no unity will make no prey,.218.
The whetstone in a village does no blunt the knife.219.
The widow's sons have not tears.220.
The woman who gives birth to a child is like the banana tree that breaks under the weight of its fruit.