Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe

The girl still said: 'I will go alone to be the wife of the chief.' Her father replied: 'How can you, my daughter, say such a thing? Is it not so that when a girl goes to present herself to her husband she should be accompanied by others? Be not foolish, my daughter.' She said: 'I will go alone to be the wife of the chief.' But the girl would not consent that those people should go with her. The man called all his friends, and assembled a large company to go with his daughter to the village of the chief. The man said: 'At that village which I visited, the chief wishes for a wife you, my daughter, shall go.'

The eldest replied: 'I wish to be the wife of a chief, my father.' The name of that girl was Mpunzikazi. The man went home and said to his two daughters: 'Which of you wishes to be the wife of a chief?' They said the news of their place was that the chief wanted a wife. Then the man inquired about the news of their place. He replied, that there was no news in the place that he came from. One day the man went over the river to another village, which was the residence of a great chief The people asked him to tell them the news. Here was once a man living in a certain place, who had two daughters big enough to be married. As with Cinderella - a tale to which is often compared - there is a comeuppance for the one who is rude and a happy ending for the one who is polite and brave. (5 of 5)Ī tidy little fairy tale about a good sister and a bad sister who compete to marry a king. Family read-aloud party for the holiday weekend: Juneteenth, Father's Day, a birthday, and the solstice.

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe