Courlander, Harold , 1908-1996

The cow-tail switch and other West African stories / by Harold Courlander and George Herzog ; drawings by Madye Lee Chastain - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1993, c1947. - 139 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Addenda to notes on the stories": leaf mounted on p. [129].

"Africa is many things" -- Cow-tail switch -- Kaddo's wall -- Talk -- One you don't see coming -- Kassa, the strong one -- Anansi's fishing expedition -- Younde goes to town -- Singing tortoise -- Time -- Messenger to Maftam -- Guinea fowl and rabbit get justice -- Anansi and Nothing go hunting for wives -- How Soko brought debt to Ashanti -- Hungry spider and the turtle -- Throw mountains -- Ansige Karamba, the glutton -- Don't shake hands with everybody.

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