“Ẹni à bá tà ká fowó-o rẹ̀ ra àtùpà: ó ní òun à-jí-tanná-wò-lóru.”
English
A person who should be sold for money to purchase a lamp boasts that he is one-people-light-lamps-to-admire-at-night.
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