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by and by," replied the boy, ,,I look out business belong me self." The Tabfo people went to 

 collect food to celebrate the marriage, and the would-be bride stayed alone at home because of 

 her monthly course. The Da\âri boy seized his weapons and went över to Tabio, and flnding 

 the girl alone said to her, „Corne on, brother belong you been take sister belong me. I take you 

 go along Daväre." The girl did not want to go, and he remonstrated with her, standing in front 

 of her while she was sitting on the ground. In the end he put down his bow and arrows, lifted 

 her up on his Shoulders, and picking up his weapons carried her away. The girl did not like 

 the boy and sat on his Shoulders without saying a word. Her blood ran down on his body. At 

 mid-way he put her down and said, „No good 1 carry you, more better you walk self. My home 

 close to, by and by people he look, he laugh, say, 'Boy he carry woman.'" The girl refused to 

 go, and he had to carry her, and both u'ere covered with her blood. Close to the village there 

 was a creek, and they bathed there. „House here close to, you go self," said the boy, „I no 

 want carry you," and she wcnt into the house. The people received her with great joy, a mat 

 was spread out for her, and she was given food. But she did not taste anything and went to 

 sit on the bare floor. „VVhat name (vvhy) that boy carry me come?" she thought, „I no like him. 

 You put mat — I no want go sit down on mat." She was fond of a certain boy in a bush- 

 village and therefore did not want the Davåre boy. But the latter was very glad at having brought 

 her to his home, and he entertained the people with tobacco. 



In the night the boy's parents said to the girl, „You and boy belong me, you two sleep 

 one place. I make bed belong you." The girl did not want to sleep there. .^t midnight vvhen eve- 

 rybody was asleep she got up and went away to her sweetheart in the bush -village. The next day. 

 she was missed, and all the people, her parents included, started to search for her, foUowing her 

 tracks. At length she was found, and the people said to her, „What name (why) you come? 

 Man belong you been take you finish yesterday." „1 no like that boy," she replied, „1 been catch 

 my man." 



This situation was a great shame for her parents. „That thing you do," they said to 

 her, „everybody yarn about that thing; father and mother he dead, pickaninny he yarn about all 

 time (this scandai will be spöken of for ever)." („To-day you me yarn about that thing — that 

 fellow he been speak true," said the narrator.) 



The parents of the rejected lover turned against their son: „What name (why) you been 

 take that girl? He no been come self, you been carry him go. That fashion you make him, 

 people no leave that yarn, talk about all time." (Amüra, Mawâta). 



THE GIRL WITH TWO SUITORS (no. 210—211). 



210. Long ago it happened that a certain beautiful låsa girl was proposed to by two 

 boys. In the night one of them came and slept with her, and the next day the other asked her 

 to work with him in the garden. „No good two man he come want me," she thought, „one 

 man he come night-time, other man he sing out me go along bush." She felt very unhappy, and 

 one day she climbed a tree, put her belt round her neck, tying both ends to a branch, and jumped 

 from her foothold, hanging herself. A man heard her death-rattle and summoned the people, and 

 N:o 1. 



