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Adie and Adhoch
Christine Nyangate
Alice Toich, Catherine Groenewald, Melany Pietersen, Venolin Keanan Govender and Wiehan de Jager
English
There was a man who had two wives.

The wives gave birth to two daughters, Adie and Adhoch.

The step sisters loved each other very much.
Adie was hard working, neat, kind and well behaved.

Adhoch, on the other hand, was lazy, unkind and untidy.
Teachers loved Adie. She got many presents for her hard work.

Adhoch did not receive any. Her mother was jealous of Adie.
Adie's mother became sick and died.

Adie's stepmother did not love her as her mother did.
Adhoch's mother made Adie do all the work. She did not have time to get ready for school.

Adhoch studied and played when Adie was busy working.
Adie still did well in school. She passed her exams and received more presents.

This made Adhoch's mother very angry.
One day, Adhoch's mother asked Adie to go with her to the river to fetch water.

When they got there, she told Adie to go deeper into the river to fetch clean water.

Adie was swept to the opposite side of the river.
Mother went back home. Adhoch asked where her sister was.

Her mother said, "Adie is at the river with her friends. She will come home later."
When night fell, Adhoch went to look for her step sister at the river. She called her name, "Adie! Where are you?"

Adhoch heard, "I am on the other side of the river. Mother abandoned me."
Adhoch walked across the river calling her sister. "Adie! Where are you?"

She heard the same reply, "I am on the other side of the river. Mother abandoned me."
Adhoch got deep into the river.

She was swept across to the other side in the same way as Adie.
Adhoch's mother was sad. She lost Adhoch because she was jealous of Adie.

She had to do all the work by herself.
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Adie and Adhoch
Author - Christine Nyangate
Illustration - Alice Toich, Catherine Groenewald, Melany Pietersen, Venolin Keanan Govender and Wiehan de Jager
Language - English
Level - First paragraphs
© African Storybook Initiative 2016
Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Source www.africanstorybook.org
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  • Translations and adaptations
    • Adie na Adhoch
      Kiswahili (Translation)
    • Mbwali ni Nsooli
      Lusoga (Translation)
    • Iŋênûm iko Imido
      Otuho (Translation)
    • Adie man Adhoch
      Tiv (Translation)
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