After this, King Oba and his people were very careful, for a short while. They only took what they wanted and nothing more. No piece of food was thrown away as waste.
Then came the time for the great party that King Oba hosted every year.
King Oba invited all his subjects for the party.
King Oba's servant took out the pieces of the sky and cut it into various lovely looking shapes and sizes and placed it for the people to eat during the party feast.
All the people in the kingdom were beautifully dressed for the party. They came to the party and when they saw the food placed before them the people were delighted.
They ate on the food that was available there and they were even more happy on eating the food.
However slowly the happiness of the people gave to their greed.
The more they ate, the more they wanted to eat, though the people were not hungry anymore.
The people plucked out pieces of the sky and started eating and throwing a lot of the pieces as waste because they were not really hungry.
Through the course of the party the people forgot the Sky's warning.
Adapted from Nigerian folktales
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