17. The Yams That Were Twice
 As Large As Bouqui.





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 OUQUI once owned a pig which he fed on avocado pears.
 Everybody in Haiti knows that hogs fed on this fruit
can get so fat that they fall on the ground and never again
get back to their feet; and also when a finger is pressed on
their backs a hole remains; these are two of the ways to
know when they are ready for butchering.
 That was about how fat Bouqui's pig was.
 For sometime Malice had been scheming to eat that
pig. Being Malice, it was not hard for him to find a plan.
 He went to Bouqui and said, *Uncle Bouqui, I've just
returned from my godmother's house where something
amazing happened.
 cWhat happened? Tell me quick, Malice!,
 -For four days they have been digging a yam in her
 field and they have just finished.-This fruit of the earth is
 twice as large as you. It is so large that it took ten men to
 carry it. Now my godmother has to build a special house
 to put it in, because the one she lives in is too small. The