M62E. One field and two employees. 12.

A weak character alternately negotiates with two strong ones to cultivate the site. Each of the strong works in due time and does not know about the existence of the other. As a result, a weak character takes the entire crop.

Fulbe, guro, hausa, mukulu, songhai, (ashanti).

West Africa. Fulbe: Hampâté Bâ 1994 [The hare tells Behemoth that he was in heaven and the god Allawalam gave him strength; offers to cultivate the plot together, harvest; let the Behemoth work at night, and he, the Hare, during the day; for this A. will make the body of Behemoth more beautiful; he says the same to the Elephant (let him work during the day); the Hippopotamus and the Elephant work, everyone thinks that the Hare is working for the other half of the day; the harvest is harvested, The hare invites everyone to pull the rope, the winner will take the entire crop; while the Elephant and the Behemoth are pulling the rope, finding each other, going to kill the Hare; he wears the rotten skin of a dead leopard, tells Elephant and Behemoth that the Hare has damaged him, the Gazelle, and he can do the same to them; they give the harvest to the Hare just so that he does not bewitch them]: 42-62; Moreira 1948 [The hare agrees first with the Elephant, then with the Behemoth to cultivate the field every other day; the Elephant and the Hippopotamus each do their job on their own and think that the Hare is working the next day; the Hare collects the ripe harvest himself, hides ; invites the Elephant, then the Behemoth to pull the war, the winner will get the whole harvest; The Elephant and the Hippopotamus pull the rope for several days, meet each other halfway, understand deception; The hare hides under half-decayed antelope corpse; replies on her behalf that the Hare made her so his witchcraft; Elephant and Hippopotamus are afraid, decide not to take revenge on the Hare]: 238-241; guro [antelope negotiates with the elephant cultivate the field and grow a fonio; let the elephant work at night and she work during the day; then with the hippopotamus: let him work during the day and she at night; they work and the antelope lie in the hammock; to share the harvest, the antelope invites the elephant first and then the hippopotamus to pull the rope: whoever is stronger will receive a fonio; at this time, the antelope harvested and carried it to its village; the elephant and the hippopotamus saw each other, together with the village and everything was selected]: Tououi Bi 2014:239-241; hausa [kurege (earth squirrel) promises first the camel and then the elephant to find a strong assistant to cultivate the site; everyone works, not Seeing the other; the camel dug a hole, went down there, the elephant brought grain; both do not see and are afraid of each other, they run away, the kurege takes the grain]: Bystrov et al. 1962:66-68; mukula [elephant and camel without knowing one about the other, they have chosen the same site for processing; they work without knowing each other, one by one; everyone is happy that the work is being done even in his absence; the hare overhears how the camel builds plans, advises the elephant to come to the site at a certain time; tells him that the camel lying at the termite mound is just his harp, and he is twice as large; the elephant touched the camel, both frightened and scattered in different directions; the hare got the millet]: Jungraithmayr 1981, No. 30:151-153; Songhai [Hare, M53; The Hare alternately negotiates with the Elephant and the Camel to cultivate one plot for two , working every other day; the Elephant and the Camel do not know about each other; when the harvest is ripe, the Hare tells everyone that a monster is coming; hearing the branches crackling, the Camel and the Elephant run away, the whole harvest goes to the Hare]: Hama 1967: 266-267; (cf. Ashanti [a leopard and a sheep, without knowing each other, cultivate the same plot at different times, build a house; when they meet, they decide to live together; each has a son; the leopard wonders how the ram brings as much game from the hunt as he does; asks his son to find out; the son of a ram gestures how the ram butts; one day a ram slipped on the wet floor, and the leopard thinks he is at him attacks; ran into the forest and has been living in the forest ever since]: Barker, Sinclair 1917, No. 27:141-143).