281 Kikuyu Proverbs / Page 18
- 171. The goat slaughtered for a man who is sick now, finds another who ws sick long before.
 - 172. The goats pasture with bells hanging from their necks in order not to stray.
- 173. The good milking cow is praised after her death.
- 174. The grove of the hear is not laid open.
- 175. The hump of the ox that has grown old must be eaten by women.
- 176. The hunter's son knows how to hunt.
- 177. The hyena calls another hyena worse than itself.
- 178. The hyena does not eat its baby, and you know how insatiable it is.
- 179. The Kikuyu know how to conceal their quiver, but do not know how to conceal their secrets.
- 180. The land enriches not people who clear it, but people who come.
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