“Bí ó di ọdún mẹ́ta tí ẹkùn-ún ti ńṣe òjòjò, olugbe la ó ha rán lọ bẹ̀ ẹ́ wò?”
English
If it has been three years since the leopard took ill, is it a monkey that one sends to ask its condition?
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