Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

THE SNAKE CHIEF

Characters:

• Narrator
• Father
• Older Sister
• Mouse
• Boy
• Old Woman
• Young Girl
• Village Woman
• Snake Chief
• Mpunzanyana (M-poo-nzyah-nzyah-nyah)

NARRATOR: Many years ago, a father searched far and wide for worthy husbands for his two daughters.

FATHER: Daughters, I have finally found a chief from a village across the big river who needs a wife.

OLDER SISTER: I will go to him at once. I am the oldest.

: Wonderful. I’ll call

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