One day Anansi was down by the beach when he saw a little island with a coconut tree in it with ripe nuts. There had been a famine lately, and everyone was starving. So Anansi found a little boat and with much difficulty shoved off for the island. He finally got to the small island, and he climbed the tree and tried to pick the nuts and drop them in his boat, but they all fell into the water. Anansi dived down after them, and when he got to the bottom, there was a little house with a man. The man gave Anansi a pot and told him that the pot would never run out of food. Anansi took the pot home and hid it in his room. Soon all the people noticed that Anansi was fat and they were not. So one day his son watched his father and found the pot. They held a great feast, and they melted the pot on accident. When Anansi found the pot was gone he went back to the lake and Thunder the man in the house gave him a stick and it started to beat him until he had to jump from his boat and run.
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