Anansi was too selfish to share
his beautiful delicious yams with
anybody else. So he came up
with a nasty plan.

Just as Turtle sat down at the
table and began to reach for
some yams, Anansi yelled at
him, “Turtle, your hands are all
dirty! You can’t eat with your
hands all dirty! Go wash them.”

Turtle’s hands really were dirty.
So he slowly crawled to the
river, washed his hands, and
then crawled back.