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Her mother, while preparing to go to the market, instructs Cheptoo to sweep the house and wash the dishes in anticipation of the New Crops Festival, an event Cheptoo is particularly excited about due to the food, music, and dancing. Despite her mother's instructions, Cheptoo's tendency to get easily distracted by insects and children causes significant delays in her tasks. The narrative highlights the negative trait of laziness and suggests that the eradication of this vice can be achieved through punishment, as indicated by the story's premise. The work, published by the African Storybook Project and adapted by Marlene Custer, is copyright protected but allows for commercial use, adaptation, and non-commercial distribution with proper attribution to the original authors and illustrators.","The Lazy Cheptoo  \nBy: Sigei Gilbert  \nEnglish Story Book  \nThe Lazy Cheptoo  \nWriter Sigei Gilbert  \nIllustrations: Mango Tree, Jesse Breytenbach, Peris Wachuka, Silva Afonso, Vusi Malindi, Ubongo,Selina Masego Morulane, and International Illustrations: Art of Reading Reformatted and Adapted for Bloom by: Marlene Custer  \nAfrican Storybook Project  \nEnglish  \nSouth African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) [www.africanstorybook.org](www.africanstorybook.org)  \nThis story captures the negative vice of laziness and how punishment leads to its eradication.  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2016, Sigei Gilbert  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nOnce upon a time, there lived a girl named Cheptoo in Kimongo Village.  \nEveryone called her lazy, because it always took her so long to finish her chores. When fetching water for her mother, she walked slowly and took along, long time to return home.  \nChepto often forgot what she was supposed to be doing.  \nShe always stopped to talk to the cats and the turtles or any-  \nthing else that crossed her path.  \nOne day her mother told her,\"Cheptoo, I have to go to the market. Make sure you sweep the house and wash the dishes.  \nThis evening we are going to the New Crops Festival. \"  \nCheptoo was very excited. There would be food, music, and much dancing. She must get busy and get her chores done.  \nAs soon as her mother left, she began sweeping the house. She swept and swept, taking avery long time.  \nOnce she stopped to watch a small cricket. 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