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parents made their appearance in a drcain and> said to hei-, „My girl, you listen what I two go 

 speak along you. Suppose to-morrow mother belong Waple corne sing out (invites) you, you 

 take two pièce belong wood, take liim go that place. AH sister belong you he dead, Waple been 

 kill him along drumo (pénis). VVâple he stop that small house. Suppose night you hear little 

 bit noise, that drumo he go along floor. One pièce wood you put him underneath; .suppose 

 âriimo he go on top, you hammer him along that other pièce wood ; that man he dead. Suppose 

 you go you see one big tree stand up close to house: that ail sister belong you he lie down 

 dead close to." 



In the morning the girl got up and took back the food which she had put on her parent's 

 -grave, for it is the fashion of the „bushmen" to take back the food from a grave which they 

 hâve placed there in order to be visited by some spirit in a dream. She sald, „I glad for you 

 two fellow, mother, father, you two speak straight me that t;ilk." 



Wâple's mother came and said, „Vou corne, ail sister belong you he corne. No good 

 you stop hère, more better you come same place." The girl went and took two pièces of wood 

 with her. She did not .sleep in the night but kept a careful watch. After a time the pénis came 

 moving along the floor, and she thoughl, „Him he there." At first the member went towards 

 the old woman, but smelling her out it passed her and moved towards the girl. She put the 

 one pièce of wood in front of her and lifted the other ready to strike. Just as the penis was 

 passing över the wood, she banged down her weapon, and VVåple was killed. Then the girl 

 got up and killed Wàple's mother too after vvhich she burnt both the houses. Lea\-ing the bodies 

 of her dead sisters for the present she went home, entered her house, and lighted a flre on all 

 the hearths belonging to her sisters. ,.You sister," she said, „suppose you dead finish, he all 

 right. Suppose you no dead, you come back this house, I been make liim fire along fireplace 

 belong you. Mother, father, he leave for you me (us) this house." 



All her sisters came back and entered the house, the eldest first and then the rest, 

 everybody returning to her right place in the house. „What's the matter me been dead.'" they 

 asked their sister. „One man he got big äruino all same snake," she related, „he kill you fellow. 

 Mother belong him he been make fool along you. I make you fellow life." The girls werc all 

 \-er\' glad and held a large feast. (Wäibu, Mawäta). 



THE MAN WHOSE SCROTUM WAS A YAM. 



367. At Gâlegide, not far from the Bi'natûri river, there lived a man also called Gàlegide, 

 and his mother. His scrotum consisted of a large yam-root which was fixed in the ground so 

 that he could not move about. The leaves of the yams enclosed him altogether, and they were 

 his house. His mother, also Gâlegi'de by name, was shaped like an ordinary woman, and she 

 worked in her garden and prepared food for them both. They had no proper house and siept 

 in the shelter of the yam leaves. The boy could lie down and sit up. 



Some distance off there lived two girls named Tâgle and Lüde. They spent their time 

 catching fish and working in their garden. One day their fire was put out by a heavy rain, 

 and on the sanie day they .saw a fire at Gâlagi'de. W'hen they came home they were nearly 



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