“Ẹyẹ akòko-ó ní òún le gbẹ́ odó; ta ní jẹ́ fi odó akòko gúnyán jẹ?”
English
The woodpecker boasts that it can carve a mortar; who ever used a mortar carved by the woodpecker to make pounded yam?
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