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Excerpt from The Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol. 26 Seventy years ago, some missionaries reduced the Yoruba language to a written form. Ajaji wrote in the Yoruba tongue the stories I shall now read to you, and then translated them into English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.