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girls), vvho came and were married to his sons, with the exception of one girl who was intended 

 for himself. One day he took ofï his bad skin and burnt it, and underneath he was a fine man. 

 He married the girl. 



202. A vvoman and her daughter lived by themselves, and a man while Walking about 

 used every day to come near their house. Once the girl managed to catch him, and they married. 



FROJVl COURTING TO MATRIMONY. 



203. A boy courted a girl, and she at first refused to take him, but after his father had 

 threatened to kill her if she persisted he was accepted. He boasted to his friends that he had had 

 connection with her, but they reproached him for speaking thus of his bride. At the girl's request 

 he went and captured the heads of two „bushmen" which he presented to her and her father. 



204. A man was repeatedly refused by a widow who declared that she would not marry 

 at all. She was fond of a man in another village and once at a dance there she gave him sago 

 in token of her favour. The disappointed lover set fire to the house in which the people were. 



205. A girl rejected the wooing of a boy, but after he had given her a love medicine 

 she accepted him, and he came to her in the night. They were detected, but his parents gave 

 payment for her, and they married. 



206. One night a boy wanted to go to a girl and promised to take his younger brother 

 with him, but he left him sleeping on his bed. The little brother woke up låter on and went 

 after him. He was frightened by a bad man, but two other men who were fishing in the night 

 protected him and gave him fish. 



207. A boy ran away with a girl and was pursued by her father who shot some arrows 

 after him. The two went and stayed in another place, but after a time their friends brought 

 them back and gave the girl's father payment for her. 



208. During a quarrel which a man had with his fellow-villagers his wife was killed. 

 He carried off another woman by a ruse, and they settled down in the bush and were never found. 



209. A Tabio and Davare boy had arranged to marry each other's sisters, but only the 

 former of them was accepted by his sweetheart. The rejected Daväre lover seized his girl by 

 force and carried her on his Shoulders all the way home. She obstinately refused to have him 

 and ran away to another boy whom she was fond of. The Davåre boy was put to shame for 

 his rash behaviour. 



THE GIRL WITH TWO SUITORS. 



210. A girl was wooed by two boys at the same time. They did not give her any 

 peace, and she was so unhappy that she hanged herself. 



211. A widow encouraged two wooers at the same time, for which slie was much 

 blamed by the people. 



GURUME, THE RIDICULOUS LOVER. 



212. Gurüme looked a ridiculous figure, and in spite of the dislike which the girls showed 

 fo]' him he persisted in trying to win their favour. He danced alone before them endeavouring in 



Tom. XLVU. 



