Anansi invites Turtle into her home to share a meal, but contrives to eat all the yams herself, leaving Turtle hungry. Turtle returns the compliment by inviting Anansi to join him - and cleverly gets his own back.

An old man is driven to distraction by a boy playing his drum. Everyone he asks has a different idea of how to stop the boy from playing, but it is not until a wise man appears on the scene and offers to help that the problem is solved.