Every night, Setelane found a pot of beer and a loaf of bread waiting for him. It continued for many nights. He started wondering, ‘It is as if I have a wife and yet I never married; I have never known a woman.’ All of a sudden, the ostrich-egg burst open and a young woman emerged out of it. She was very beautiful, and she started talking to him, “Setelane, I will be your wife and I will make bread and a pot of beer for you every day. But remember, never call me the daughter of an ostrich-egg, even if you are drunk, for then everything will end.” Setelane promised her that he would never say such a disgraceful thing. And then began a very happy life for him. One day, she asked him if he would like to be a chief and have people working for him. He said, “Yes.”
The Ostrich-Egg Wife
