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The first boy got annoyed and was about to slap the other boy when the storyteller intervened and told both of them to sit down.
“Since all of you have refused to choose a particular animal, I will choose my own,” the storyteller said, and all the children murmured, but he ignored them and continued, “The animal I choose is man.”
“Man!” Ibekwe shouted, and the storyteller gave him a stern look that kept his mouth shut.