Nymo goes, on invitation, to visit his “big friend,” Bush-King, in a far country. Nymo is well treated because he is a friend of the king, and he is given one of the best houses in the town. In his sleeping room a basket of eggs had been stored. Nymo takes them, and leaves the house and the town, telling the people that urgent business requires him to go home. On the river-bank near by, Nymo arranges with Frog, the ferryman, to be carried across in his canoe; but before they embark, the people of the town run up, crying to Frog not to take Nymo aross, because he has stolen their eggs. Nymo denies it, and declares that it is only a scheme to ruin his good name. But the people insist. Nymo proposes that they bring Bush-King to search him. Bush-King is downcast about the ‘thief palaver” against Nymo, and undertakes to search him. To his surprise, he finds the eggs on Nymo’s person; but as he is unwilling to disgrace one whom he has but recently praised, and as there is a girl in the crowd Nymo is expected to marry, Bush-King declares to the people that he has found no eggs. Because Bush-King is a great and powerful man, the people believe him and return to their huts. The people in Nymo’s country still say, “It needs no less man than the king of the town to restore a reputation once in question.”