The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

NIGERIAN JOKE

THERE WAS A STORY OF A DEBTOR WHO KNEW THAT HIS CREDITOR WILL
BE COMING AT A PARTICULAR TIME TO ASK FOR HIS MONEY, AND
BEING THAT HE HAD NO MONEY TO PAY HIS CREDITOR HE DECIDED TO HIDE.
THE DEBTOR TOLD HIS WIFE THAT WHEN THE CREDITOR COMES SHE SHOULD
TELL HIM THAT HE HAS GONE OUT. MEANWHILE THE DEBTOR WENT
AND HIDE AT THE BACK OF THE DOOR, UNFORTUNATELY FOR HIM HIS LEG
WAS SHOWING AND HE NEVER KNEW. THE CREDITOR ARRIVED AND DEBTOR'S
WIFE TOLD HIM THAT HER HUSBAND HAD GONE OUT, AND THE CREDITOR
DECIDED TO LEAVE. AS HE WAS MOVING OUT HE SAW THE LEG OF HIS
DEBTOR AT THE BACK OF THE DOOR. THEN THE CREDITOR TURNED TO THE
DEBTOR'S WIFE AND SAID, "TELL YOUR HUSBAND THAT WHENEVER HE IS
GOING OUT HE SHOULD ALWAYS TAKE HIS LEG ALONG WITH HIM". WHEN THE
CREDITOR WENT AWAY THE DEBTOR WAS ASHAMED OF HIMSELF.

Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT WAS LAUGHING WHEN NARRATING IT.

Where learned: DETROIT

Date learned: 00-00-1978