281 Kikuyu Proverbs / Page 8
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The animal caught in the trap does not refuse to set itself free.142.
The animal rambling in the stable makes the sleeping ones rise too.143.
The antelope detests the one who announces its whereabouts more than the one who sees it.144.
The baby nursed by its grandmother can never be corrected.145.
The baby that refuses its mother's breast, will never be full.146.
The bird who has always possessed a beak, does not pick up for another.147.
The blessed knife eats of the meat of the 'kinandu'.148.
The breaking of a betrothal is no small matter.149.
The buying of a wife begins from a little thing.150.
The chest contains a beehive full of pride.151.
The cimex lives in the firewood and still it reaches its full growth.152.
The cooking pot on the fire leaks, when pouring water it is broken.153.
The cow has a bad delivery though her owner is present.154.
The cow is given a present when her calf is carried away.155.
The cow that drops her calf in the sun feeds it there too.156.
The day is for working, the night is for resting.157.
The dunghill grows by straws thrown upon it.158.
The elders drink afterwards.159.
The elders of the council do not jump over a brook.160.
The enemy i know is better than the one i do not know.