Nymo and Goat are “big friends.” They agree that the first to marry will be invited with his bride to the house of the other for “big play.” Three days later, Goat marries, and is invited to Nymo’s town. While Nymo’s guests are bathing and resting, Nymo orders “chop.” There is no “fresh” in the house to season the palm-butter; but Nymo tells the cooks to prepare the palm-butter as though they had “fresh,” then to set it aside to cool. Nymo fills his mouth and hands full of pepper, and tells the cooks to bind him hand and foot with fibre-string and put him in the bowl of palm-butter, then to set the bowl before Goat and his wife, with a big bowl of rice. Before Goat and his wife begin to eat, they inquire for Nymo. ‘He has just gone to a near-by palm-tree to get you some palm-wine,” answer the servants. Goat picks up a big knife to cut himself a helping from the meat in the palm-butter. The first cut severs the string that binds Nymo. He dashes the pepper into the eyes of Goat and his wife, jumps out of the palm-butter, washes his skin, and comes bearing to his guests a large jug of palm-wine. He feigns surprise, and says, “Why do you weep so? And look at the butter all over you!” — “Don’t open your mouth to me,” says Goat. “Stand aside! we are leaving this place at once.” Nymo marries, and is invited by Goat to visit him. In Goat’s house there is no ‘fresh’ for the palm-butter; but Goat directs the cooks to make the butter as usual. After the pot of palm-oil is boiling, Goat directs them to bind him, fill his mouth with pepper, and put him in the pot. “To-day I intend to serve crafty Nymo with a palm-butter exactly like the one he gave me as his guest.” — “What a delicious palm-butter our friend Goat has prepared for us!” says Nymo, slicing up the meat. “Yes, indeed!” replies his wife; “and see how well cooked the meat is!” — "But where is my friend Goat?” The servants tell how they have dropped their master at his own order into the boiling palm-oil. “Trying to get even with me!” says Nymo. “This only goes to show that a man should never attempt to imitate what another does unless he knows all the details.”