![]() ![]() My mother was the last married among the rest and she only bore two sons but the rest bore only daughters. I was seven years old before I understood the meaning of "bad" and "good", because it was at that time I noticed carefully that my father married three wives as they were doing in those days, if it is not common nowadays. ![]() ![]() By that time I could not drink ordinary water at all except palm-wine.īut when my father noticed that I could not do any work more than to drink, he engaged an expert palm-wine tapster for me he had no other work more than to tap palm-wine every day. I was drinking palm-wine from morning till night and from night till morning. My father got eight children and I was the eldest among them, all of the rest were hard workers, but I myself was an expert palm-wine drinkard. In those days we did not know other money, except COWRIES, so that everything was very cheap, and my father was the richest man in our town. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life. I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. Opening Passages: From The Palm-Wine Drinkard: ![]()
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