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with her, and she went back alone. „Mother, where my girl?" Gålegide asked hei-. ,,No got 

 him," she answered, „Tvvo fellow no like.'' Gdlegide wanted to send her back at once, and after 

 she had eaten she went. That time the ekier girl gave vvay and went with ber. The younger 

 sister stayed behind to look after their garden and two pigs. The old woman brought the girl 

 to Gålegide, but lie said, „No, first time I no been look that woman. I been see good (good- 

 looking) woman, I think you been leave him good woman, my woman. I ihink j'ou 

 take him back." 



The mother took the elder sister back and said to the young girl, „Behind girl, he like 

 you, I think you go." Then the gii'1 went with ber, asking her sister to look after her garden 

 and pig, and she wept, for she did not care IVir a nian like Gålegide. She was brought to him, 

 and she and the old woman prepared a great kaikai. Gàlegide's mother said to him, „You get 

 up, kaikai." „I no can get up, I fast," he answered, „no good you pu.sh me." The next day the 

 two women went to work in the gardens but Gålegide remained at home, as he could not get 

 up, and in the evening they came back. 



The elder sister who remained alone wept night and day, and she could neither sleep 

 nor work in her garden. Gàlegide's wifc too cried for her sister whom she had left behind and 

 she thought, „What name (what shall) I do? I think I kill him that man." The next morning 

 she pretended to be ill, so her mother-in-law went alone to the garden. VVhile working there the 

 latter suddenly felt drowsy in a sort of presentiment and thought to herself, „What's the matter 

 my boy, I think he sick." 



When the girl was left alone with Gålegide she got up, seized a stick and hit his yam 

 scrotum, breaking it altogether. Gålegide was dead, and his wife ran away to her sister telling 

 her that she had killed him. „Come on, you kill him two pig belong me quick," the elder girl 

 said, „by -and- by that woman he come, kill me two." They killed their pigs eating some of the 

 flesh and keeping the rest. Then they ran away and built a house in a large tree far away. ^^ 

 They stayed there. 



When the old woman came home, she saw that the yam-leaves were withering, and 

 cried out, „Whafs the matter my boy? Oh, somebody he humbug my boy, somebody kill my 

 boy." And she cried all night. The next morning she set out to kill the two girls. But they were 

 beyond reach in the large tree, and there they still remain. The old woman still lives at Gålegide. 

 (Giii, Dirimo). 



THE MAN WHO HAD NO MOUTH OR ANUS. 



368. At Giiruru there lived a man named Iregide who had no mouth or anus. When 

 he was hungry he skinned a banana and smelled at it, and this appeased his hunger, and 

 the same was the case when he s.melled at some fish which he had caught and cooked. He 

 used to keep the fruit and fish till he had inhaled their smell, and then he threw them away. 



At Llgri not far from Büravi there lived a man named Wöboiame. His first wife had 

 died leaving him a little girl named Mürke. („My god, that's long story, I savy now," interpolated 

 the interpteter used by me). His othei- wife whose name was Abu gave Mürke nothing but 



Tom. .\I.V1I. 



