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good you me (\ve) stop self (by oiirselves), he no got no people. More better you go look some 

 people." At first the woman did not find anybody, but another time she met twelve giii? who 

 iived by themselves without a tather oi- mother. „VVhat name (vvhy) you corne hère?" they 

 asked her. „I corne look round some people. I stop along boy belong me, I want some 

 people stop along me two t'ellow.-' „You got boy?'- the girls asked her. „Yes, I got boy, 

 me stop house." 



The old u'oman took the eldest girl home with her. She slept in a large house and her 

 son in a small hut. On arriving home she said to Wâple, „I got one girl hère, I been find 

 him." „You put him along that house where you stop," replied Wâple. The girl did not suspect 

 anything evil, and the old woman said to her, ,,Boy belong me stop along bush." But that was 

 not true, for he stayed in the small hut. The woman and girl prepared food, and at sundown 

 the former brought some to her son. She warned him saying, „That good woman, you no kill 

 him." The woman and girl slept two nights togethcr, and Wâple slept in the small hut. The 

 third night Wâple's pénis extended itself and crawied away into the other house, while he himself 

 remained in the hut. The pénis passed into the girl penetrating her body till it stuck out through 

 her mouth. Then he drew it out, and the girl was dead. 



In the morning the old woman got up and finding the girl dead scolded her son. 

 The dead bod\' was carried outside and placed at the root of a tonia tree, but it was 

 not buried. 



Then Wâple asked his mother, „You go take another girl, I want him." The old woman 

 went and said to the girls, „That girl I been take him yesterday ^ I got plenty kaikai, no can 

 finish him all, I want another one he come." One of the remaining girls accompanied her home. 

 „You cook kaikai." she said to the girl, „sister belong you he come by-and-by, he stop along 

 garden." The girl uaited for her si.ster to come, and at sundown the old woman said, „He no 

 come back quick, he got plenty kaikai along garden, plenty ripe banana he stop." They cooked 

 food, and the woman took some to Wâple. „Oh, sister belong you he got plenty work along 

 bush," she said to the girl, „I think he sleep along bush. By-and-by you me two fellow to- 

 morrow go look him." The girl did not knovv anything of Wâple. and she and the woman 

 slept in the house and he in the hyt. At night his penis came crawling along and passed into 

 the girl till it came out through her mouth, and she was dead. In the morning the old woman 

 placed her next to her dead sister. 



Again Wâple sent his mother to fetch one of the girls. and she said to them, „Oh, that 

 two girl, two sister belong you, he been make plenty garden. Plenty kaikai he stop, no can 

 finish him all." A third girl ji;)ined her and was taken to Wâple's home where she was kept 

 under the same pretext as her sisters, and eventually Wâple killed her. 



In the same way one girl after another was enticed to come to Wâple who killed them 

 all. At length one girl orily remained. She felt rather uneasy about the fäte of her sisters, and 

 therefore went to the grave of her parents, cleared away all the bushes, placed there a great heap 

 of food and said, „My mothei-, my father, I gi\e you fellow good kaikai. You fellow come speak 

 me good talk that time I sleep along night, vvhat place all my sister he stop, where he go, what 

 he do. Suppose you two come speak me to-night, all right; suppose you no come speak me, I 

 dig him out head (skull) belong you two fellow, chuck him away along bush." In the night her 



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