“Ẹran kí la ò jẹ rí? Ọ̀pọ̀lọ́ báni lábàtà ó ba búrúbúrú.”
English
What sort of meat is it, the likes of which one has never tasted? A toad comes upon one at the swamp and cowers in fright.
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