450 Gunnar [.andtman. 



he corne novv, all boy, all giii. Plenty fish (méat, food) you me (v\'e) kaikai. this tiine he come 

 full up." On their arrivai the people said, „Where ail pickaninny belong vve, boy and girl?" The 

 old man and vvoman could not conceal the truth, for the children's bones and other parts of 

 their bodies were lying ail over the place. „Oh, \ve two fellovv been kill him, kaikai all lot," said 

 they. Then the people speared them, and when they were dead their bodies were eut in pièces 

 and burnt in the tîre. The children's remâins were carried home and buried. (Ébau, Mawâta). 



THE CHILDREN WHO FOOLED AN OLD MAN AND WERE KILLED BY HIM 

 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE LITTLE BOY. 



409. A number of little boys belonging to Davâri once went to the bush, and some 

 distance behind them came an old man and his wife. The boys killed a snake which they placed 

 on the path. Then they went on and began to build a small hut in the bush, for they intended 

 to spend the night there. 



The old man Walking along suddenly saw the snake which he thought to he ali\-e. He 

 got such a fright that he tel! down. He hurt his back so badly that he could not walk properly 

 after that. „Oh, what name (why) you fellovv fall down?" his wiie asked him, and he said, „I 

 fright that snake." He found thatr it was dead and said, furious with anger, „Who kill that 

 snake?" He asked his wife to pick it up, and she put it in her basket. Proceeding on their way 

 the two found the boys and asked them, „What name (what) you fellow make him ?" „Oh, me 

 make him house, me want sleep along bush." „AU right, me two fellow too sleep along bush," 

 said the old man, and he sent the boys home to fetch tood and mats, and asked them to tell 

 their parents that they intended to stay overnight in the bush. 



Upon the i-eturn of the boys the old man who knew that they had fooled him with the 

 snake, eut the reptile in pièces which he mixed with sago. He invited the boys to eat the sago, 

 lying to them, „You fellow kaikai, that fish inside. " The children ail ate of it excepting one 

 little boy who was asleep and therefore escaped the old man's attention. The others died from 

 eating the snake, and the old man and woman who thought them ail dead ran away far into 

 the bush. 



In the morning the little boy got up and tried to rou.se his brothers, „You fellow get up; 

 you me (we) go!" Looking into their faces he exclaimed, „Oh, that boy he finish now, altogether 

 boy!" He ran home and said to the father and mother, „Boy belong you he finish, one old 

 man give him puripuri (sorcery)!" „Old man he stop hère?" the parents asked him. „No, old 

 man he run away to-night." The father and mother went to the bush and found their sons 

 dead, and they wailed and buried them. Then the people ail armed themselves and set out in 

 pursuit of the old couple. One man who went in front of the resl found them sleeping in a 

 small hut. He came back and said to the others, „You fellow no talk, you stop quiet," and they 

 ail crept up to the hut cautiously („he walk along close to ground"). The men shot their arrows 

 at the two old people and killed them, after which they eut off their heads and returned home 

 saying, ,.01d man he finish now, no more life." (Kâku, Ipisi'a). 



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