@flashlight_official66: LET’S ENJOY ANOTHER STORY FROM OUR OLD READER. 📖 BS5-UNIT 19 A WISE AND JUST CHIFE People in the play: TOGBUI, the chief; TSIAMI, the linguist; FIRST ELDER; SECOND ELDER; THIRD ELDER; FOURTH ELDER; YAWA; MANSA; YAO, a servant; AUDIENCE. In the chief’s house TOGBUI: Now, Tsiami. I think we’re ready. Let the women speak. TSIAMI: Now, Yawa, Mansa, we’re ready. Tell us why you were fighting. Yawa, speak first. YAWA: Oh, Togbui, this woman [pointing to MANSA] and I have the same husband. We cook together. We eat together. We sleep together in the same room. Togbui, we do everything together. I had a baby boy, and after three days she also had a baby boy. Our babies look alike, and people even think they are twins; but they are not. Here they are. You can see they are alike. Last night, I woke up and wanted to feed my baby. When I lifted him up he was dead. But I saw that the dead baby was this woman’s baby, not mine. When her baby died, she put him near me, and took my living baby. I’ve asked her to give me my living baby but she doesn’t want to do so. TSIAMI: Togbui, Elders, this is what Yawa says. We will hear Mansa, too. TOGBUI: Now, Mansa, is this story true? What do you say? MANSA: Oh, Togbui, the baby is dead, and we all see it. But the living baby is my baby. YAWA: No, it’s not true; it’s a lie. The living baby is my baby. He is my baby. Mansa always tells lies. FIRST ELDER: Stop talking now, Yawa. Mansa should speak, not you. [There is a murmur among the AUDIENCE. The AUDIENCE agrees with the FIRST ELDER.] TSIAMI: Quiet! Quiet! TOGBUI: Mansa, how do you know the living baby is your baby? The two babies look alike. MANSA: I know that because of his round eyes and round cheeks. YAWA: [Shouting] My baby, too, has the same round eyes and round cheeks! SECOND ELDER: Keep quiet, Yawa! Togbui was not talking to you. TSIAMI: Now, Yawa, why do you say that Mansa took your living baby and put her dead baby in his place? YAWA: She hates me. I know that she could take my baby. She tells lies. She is a bad woman. THIRD ELDER: Don’t you think the living baby would cry when somebody took him away from where he slept? Don’t you think you could hear your own baby crying? What did you do when you heard your own baby crying? YAWA: I was asleep and I did not hear him crying. [There is a murmur from the AUDIENCE.] TSIAMI: Quiet! Quiet, everybody! FOURTH ELDER: You sleep very deeply then! Since you sleep so much, don’t you think you may have slept on your own baby, and killed him? You may not have known it! YAWA: No, no, Togbui. The living baby is my baby, I say! [TOGBUI whispers something to TSIAMI. Then TSIAMI speaks.] TSIAMI: We’ve heard from both of you. The Elders and I will go out and think about the matter. We’ll come back soon. To be continued in the comments section 💬…….

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