He asked the small calabash, “Shall we go where many people are talking or where only a few are talking?” The small calabash answered, “Let us go to the few.”

He asked the big calabash, “Shall we go to the many or to the few?”

“Let us go where many voices are talking.”

Headstrong agreed.  He and entered the village and saw a little old man sitting on a rubbish heap and other people sitting on mats.

He asked the small calabash, “Shall we greet the people sitting on mats or those sitting on the rubbish heap?”

“Greet only those who are sitting on the rubbish heap.”

He also asked the big calabash.  The big one told him to greet only the nice people on the mats.  Headstrong agreed.

The nice people on the mats spread a mat for Headstrong and then prepared for him a porridge with chicken and a porridge of unsifted flour with flies.

He asked the small calabash, “Shall I eat the porridge with chicken or the porridge with the flies?”

The small calabash answered, “Don’t eat the chicken or if you want to eat the chicken, you must also eat the flies.  If you won’t eat the flies, then leave everything.”

But he also asked the big calabash.  The big one answered.  “Eat the chicken.”  He agreed and ate the chicken.

After dinner, Headstrong thanked only those who sat down on the mats.  He said to them, “I am looking for dogs.”  The people sitting on the mats told this to the people who were sitting on the rubbish.  The people on the rubbish heap said, “Give him his dogs.”