281 Kikuyu Proverbs / Page 15
- 141. The animal caught in the trap does not refuse to set itself free.
 - 142. The animal rambling in the stable makes the sleeping ones rise too.
- 143. The antelope detests the one who announces its whereabouts more than the one who sees it.
- 144. The baby nursed by its grandmother can never be corrected.
- 145. The baby that refuses its mother's breast, will never be full.
- 146. The bird who has always possessed a beak, does not pick up for another.
- 147. The blessed knife eats of the meat of the 'kinandu'.
- 148. The breaking of a betrothal is no small matter.
- 149. The buying of a wife begins from a little thing.
- 150. The chest contains a beehive full of pride.
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