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Thy younger bi'other hath OTevpowered me. So when her hns- 

 hand returned, as usual, in the evening, and entered his house, and 

 found his wife lying there, as if some scoundrel had mis-handled 

 her, and did not give him water for his hands as usual, nor lit 

 the lamp before him, so that his house was in daikness, b.ut \ny 

 there pale and faint, her husband said : Who has been talking to 

 thee ? Stand up. She said to him : No one has spoken to me 

 except thy younger brother. When he came in to get seed corn, 

 and found me sitting alone, he said to me : Come, let us have a 

 good quiet hour; put on thy handsome clothes. That was what 

 he said to me. But I did not listen to him. See, said T, am I 

 not thy mother, and th}^ brother, is he not a father to thee ? That 

 was what I said to him. And then he became alarmed, and did 

 Anolence to me, so that I should not inform against him. If, then, 

 you let him live, I shall die. See! he came to .... if I bear 

 this wicked language, he will certainly do it.(?) At this the 

 elder brother was as mad as a panther, and sharpened his axe 

 and took it in his hand, and placed himself behind the stall door, 

 to kill his 3'ounger brother on his return in the evening, driving 

 his cattle home to the stall. And when the sun had set, and he 

 had loaded himself with all kinds of fodder, as was his wont, he 

 approached, and his first cow entered the stall, and said to her 

 driver: Beware of thine elder brother, he stands before thee with 

 an axe to kill thee ; keep away from him ; and he heard what the 

 first cow said. Then went a second in and spake in like manner ; 

 and he looked beneath the door of the stall, and saw his brother's 

 feet, behind the door, with an axe in his hand. So he laid his 

 burden on the ground, and fled sadly thence ; and his elder 

 brother followed with the axe. And his younger brother com- 

 plained to the Sun God, Harmachis, saying: Good mj^ Lord, 

 thou art the one to distinguish falsehood from truth. And it 

 pleased the Sun God to hear his cry, and to raise a flood between 

 him and his elder brother, and it was full of crocodiles. And 

 one was on one bank, and the other on the other. And the elder 

 brother made two strokes with his hand, but succeeded not in 

 killing him. That he did. And the .younger brother cried from 

 the other bank, saying: Stay and wait till' it be daylight on the 

 earth, and when the Sun God rises, I will explain myself to thee, 

 to cause thee to know the truth, for never have I done thee 

 Avrong. But where thou art I will not stay, but I will go to 

 the Cedar Mountain. 



