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you no give me meat, you no give me plenty.' She then eut a smaller pièce for Màigidùbu. 

 He went and hunted pigs foi" her nearly every night. Some nights he went to work in his garden 

 in the shape of a man. 



The little boy grew up, and one day his mother asked Måigidiibu to make him a small 

 bow and arrovvs, which he did the next night. The boy went first and shot a frog and bringing 

 it home asked his mother, „That fish (edible game)?" „No, that no fish, you chuck away, no 

 man he kaikai that thing." Another day the boy brought home a lizard and asked his mother 

 the same question. „No, that no fish," she replied, „next time you no shoot him that thing." 

 Then the boy shot a rat, and the mother said, „Yes, that"s fish, man he kaikai. You good bo\', 

 you catch fish." And she asked him to g ve Mdigidiibu any game he killed. Next he shot a 

 kangaroo, and again he brought it first to his mother to ask her whether it was edible. ^ 

 Måigidiäbu made him a large bow and proper arrows, and he started to kill pigs which his mother 

 carried home for him (abbrev.). 



In order to find out where his wife had gone Röropfdji w ent and asked all the people to 

 come and dance, and in every place he left a croton twig which is a token of such an invitation. *ä 

 Måigidubu was invited, and he said to the woman and boy, .,You two go first, I go behind." 

 The people all danced, and when the boy joined in, Måigidiibu followed closely behind him. 

 Röropfdji recognized his wife and said, „Oh, that my woman. That boy he been born h:m he 

 come big fellow now." He wanted to take his wife back but Måigidiibu was angry and said, 

 „You take that woman belong you, you pay me for that boy; I been feed him." „By-and-by I 

 pay you," said Rc'iropidji, „you go back along home first time." Måigidiibu went home alone. 

 The boy was a great favorite wilh the girls and married two of them. He remained 

 with his father. 



Röropfdji, hovvever, did not give payment for his boy, and Måigidiibu bccame furious. 

 One night he came into Röropfdji's house, smelling his way to his enemy. He coiled himself 

 round him and crushed all his bones. Then he betook himself home without anybody knowing 

 that he had been there. 



Röropfdji was found in the morning, and his boy said, „Oh, father he dead, kdhuruéva- 

 abéra (grandfather or old father) been kill him." Then he went to Måigidiibu with his two vvives 

 and said to him, „I come back. You kill him father, I no talk; he no feed me, you ieed me. 

 Him he no pay. I go stop along you altogether." Màigidùbu said, „No good I stop next along you, 

 you another body, I another body. More better I go stop along tree." .And he gave the boy 

 his house and all his gardens. If Röropfdji had given payment to Måigidiibu, the latter v\ould 

 have remained with the people. (Iku, Mawåta). 



A. A certain woman nanied Dariki once gave birlh to a child, and as she did not wash 

 herself properly the smell attracted Mâlgidubu. He came in the night, and a rallie was fastened lo 

 the end of his tail. Atier lapping the hlood he swallowed the baby and mother and brought them to 

 his place where they came out. The woman was terribly frightened, but Måigidiibu kept her there and 

 gave her tood and water. Once when Darfki's husband was hunting in the bush his dogs brought 

 him to Mâigidiibu's place, and at the sight of ihe woman he said, „Oh, my wife, dog he find him 

 now. Dariki, what name (what is) that thing close to?" Måigidiibu said, „Dariki, you ask him man 

 belong you come close to." Shaking wiih fright ihe man drew nearer, he dropped his bow ana ar- 



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