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my girl." said another. Everybody talked of the things they had lost. The two brothers joined 

 in the general indignation, and seizing their bovvs and arrovvs they said, „Oh, plenty thing belong 

 me two felloA' he been burn him. Who been burn him that house?" The people accused each 

 other of having caused the fire, and there v\as a fight. „Everybody talk, talk, talk — no can make 

 out." The widow, who had been saved, was married to her rea! lover. (Bfri, Ipisfa). 



205. A certain Ki'wai boy named Si'ou was in love with a beautiful girl, but she did not 

 care for him and went away whenever he came near her. „Ei, Sagdru, what name (why) you 

 run away?" said he. „I fright for \ou, you no good man," answered she, and he said, „All right, 

 I stop, me no want a woman." 



One day Siou gave Sagâru a certain love medicine, and after that she thought, „Oh, me 

 want Siou!" She sent another boy to ask Sfou to come to her in the night, and he came and 

 woke her up. „Who there? who you?" she asked. „Me .Sfou, you me (we) sleep," said he, and 

 they slept on the same bed. During the night Sagàru's father got up and lighted a torch and 

 noticing Sfou there, he said to his daughter, „Who that man? who that sleep close to you?" „Oh, 

 that man belong me, Sfou," said she, „he want marry me." The father said, „Sfou, you go teil 

 father, mother belong you, he pay my girl." Sfou's father and mother gave a great number of 

 things in payment for the girl and said, „All right, you m.arry." (Käku, Ipisfa). 



206. One evening a certain lasa boy said to his little brother who shared his bed, „To- 

 night you me (we) two fellow go along girl." The elder brother woke up in the night and seeing 

 his little brother fast asleep left him and went out alone. He crept into his sweetheart's house 

 and awoke her, and she said, „All right, you me two fellow sleep one bed." 



A short while after that the little brother awoke and finding his brother gone called out, 

 „Brother, brother, where you go?" He got up, uent out, and vvalked about looking for his bro- 

 ther, but could not find him. Then he lav down to sleep underneath the same house where his 

 brother was with the girl. 



A certain bad man was Walking abroad that same night, and seeing him the little boy 

 became verj' frightened. „Oh, big man he come, oh, de\il (spirit) he come, he take me!" he 

 shouted and ran on to the beach. „Oh brother, devil he come catch me now, me fright, close 

 up finish now!" On the beach were two men named Wfa and Bårani (ef. Index) fishing, and 

 they said to the boy, „Come on, you come close to me fellow, no fright!" The bad man ran 

 to catch the boy, but Wfa and Bårani protected him and shot at his pursuer who had to with- 

 draw. The two kept the boy close to them and gave him a great supply of fish saying, „You 

 go house belong father, mother, speak, 'Wfa, Bårani, two fellow give me fish.'" The boy went 

 home, hung up the fish outside the house and went in to sleep. In the morning the people won- 

 dered whose fish it was. The little boy was fast asleep, having been up all night. At length his 

 father awoke him, and the boy told the people of his adventure and distributed the fish among 

 them. (Käku, Ipisfa). 



A. The elder lasa boy arrangea with his brother that they should go to some girls in the 

 night, but as the little boy did not wake up he went alone. The youngster went after him and lay 



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