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10 smile, but when Baidain danced she smiled at him. The people began to t'ight l'or the girl, and at 

 the end of the tumult some of them jumped into the vvater and became fishes and others became birds. 

 Poniponi went up to heaven by means of her navel-cord, the end of vvhich she threw up first, and 

 flickerings of lightning are her smiles. Bdidnw returned to Boigu, and hère the other story is resumed. 

 (Menégi, Mawûta). 



HOW THE GIRL WITH SORES WAS BADLY TREATED BY HER SISTERS WITH THE 



EXCEPTION OF THE YOUNGEST OF THEM. 



458. A number of girls li\'ed together at Médjagàni and sp.-nt theii' time catching crabs 

 and fish, for they had no gardens. One of them suffered from evil-smelling sores and was very 

 badly treated by the rest excepting the youngest of them who pitied her. The sick girl was 

 sent to live by herself in a corner of the house, and the rest did not even allow her to speak to 

 them and used to spit at her. One day she found a kind of taro and planted it and it started 

 to grow well. After that coconuts, sugar-cane, tobacco, and other things planted themselves in 

 the garden. The girl tried the new food, and it was very good, but no one eise knevv of her 

 garden. The other girls kept on abusing her excepting the little gir! who felt sorry for her. 

 One night the sick girl called her good sister and gave her a taro vvhich she had cooked, and 

 the little girl found the food excellent. The two cai'efully kept their secret from the rest. From 

 the effect of the nice food the sick girl became fat and healthy, her wounds healed. and the bad 

 smell disappeared. The other girls who were gradually becoming thinner wdndered vvhat food 

 the two had. One da}' the owner of the garden showed her sister where all the nice plants 

 were growing, and they shared the garden between them. 



At length the two girls pitied their elder sisters v\'ho were getting verv feeble and sickly, 

 and took them to the garden. They cooked a .great quantity of food for them, and the girls 

 were greatly s"urprised and pleased. „My word, thats why you two fellow fat," said they. „I 

 \'erj- glad along you. Me fellow be.en swear along you fellow, spit on top along you, you good 

 girl, you been find good kaikai." Each one of the elder girls was given a share in the gardens. 

 (Giii, Dirimo). 



TIBURI WHO MARRIED THE GIRL IN THE SWAMP, AND THEIR SON WHO KILLED 



THE WILD PIG. 



459. At a place called Döbei, not far from Mäsingära, lived a woman named Ûame and 

 her daughter whose name was One. and not far av\-ay at ni\'âle lived a man named Tibiiri and 

 his people. 



In the forest roamed a verv ferocious boar on the head ot which a bush ot thorn\- 

 creepers grew. " The beast used to kill many peöple and caused great terror in the whole 

 district. 



One day Tibiiri saw Uame and One in the bush, and the girl whd v\-as fishing in a 

 swamp had lolled up her grass skirt. „My god, that girl there," he thought on seeing her, „all 

 N:o 1. 



