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dying vvith coki and had no fire. „Oh, I think you me (vve) go Gâlegi'de," said Tägle, „you me 

 been look smoke, somebody been make fire there." Neither of them wanted to go, but at last 

 Tagle made up her mind and went. Before going she hung up her grass petticoat at the door 

 and said, „Suppose my grass he broke (falls dovvn), somebody catch me there. Suppose he no 

 broke, I come back. I fright, I think plentj' people stop there, you me (we) no savy." „You no 

 fright," said Lüde, „nobody there can catch you. He no got people there, I think, that's all he 

 got fire." Tagie went över \ery stealthily and was very frightened. Twice she turned back but 

 mustered up her courage again and thought, „No, I think I go takt; fire, by-and-by (otherwise) 

 my brother (sister) wild. Never mind somebody catch me — all same!" On arriving at the 

 place she looked into the house through a side-door: „Oh, what name (what is) that? That's 

 yam-house.'" She went in, and Gàlegide asked her, „Who you?" „Me Tågle, I come take fire." 

 „Kire there," said he. On seizing a firestick she saw the large yam and said, „What name (what 

 is) this one? big yam, I think." She went close to it and scratched at the yam with her finger 

 nail so that a little strip of the skin came off, and a gush of blood burst out över the girl's body 

 and head. When she left on hei- way home a stream of blood followed her. The quicker she 

 went the quicker the blood ran behind („all same water, all same snake"). The stream of 

 blood reached the girl's house after her and made a mark on the wall saying, „My girl 

 here, by-and-by mother come take him. 1 no can walk about." Then the blood returned 

 to its „father". 



After finishing her work in the garden the old woman returned home and said to 

 Gàlegide, „What's the matter you no make him fire?" „Mother, what's way I make him fire?" 

 replied he, „I fast. what's waj' I walk?" „What's the matter you stop all time? You make 

 nothing, me old woman now," and they quarrelled. Aft-er a while Gàlegide said, „Oh, mother, 

 one girl, Tågle, he been come, here, he take out my skin, I been put him my blood. I think 

 you go take him my woman." At first the mother did not want to go, but at la.st she yielded 

 to his wish. 



When Tågle came home she said to her sister, „Oh, somebody been give blood finish, 

 I can't run away, blood he been come behind. I think by-and-by somebody come catch me." 

 Then she scolded her sister, „What's the matter you been send me' Somebody been spoil me, 

 I no savy name, blood he come behind." 



The old woman followed the tracks of blood and found the house of the two girls. 

 „What name (why) you come?" said thej'. ,.I look round woman belong mj' boy. Who been 

 take out skin belong him?" „I dont know who been take out skin belong him," they said. 

 The old woman went on, „I come take woman belong my boy. Somebody come quick now! 

 Suppose somebody no come, by-and-by boy he wild along me." But neither of the girls wanted 

 to go with her, and after a futile attempt to persuade them the woman had to return alone. 

 Gàlegide was very angry on hearing of her failure, so they quarrelled, and then she promised to 

 go back on the same errand the next morning (abbrev.). 



Gàlegide woke up early and said, „Mother, you go take my woman, what's the matter 

 you wait? I want him just now, what's the matter he spoil me?" The mother went and asked 

 the elder girl, „First girl, I think you come along me," but she replied, „No." Then the mother 

 said, „Behind ,i;,irl, I think you go. Wh" girl like him he come." But both girls refuscd to go 



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