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it is for that purpose that I am journeying." "No," said Crooked 

 Teeth, "you are not the one to eat that, but I myself am the person." 

 So she by her magic power made a large brier patch and placed it in 

 front of Pretty Woman. The latter spent some time in getting 

 through the large brier patch, but at length she emerged from it and 

 was walking along, when Crooked Teeth interposed another obstacle, 

 a number of bamboo briers [vines], which she placed in advance of 

 Pretty Woman. The latter spent some time in passing these bamboo 

 briers, but at last she got clear of them and was walking along, when 

 Crooked Teeth made a very muddy place in front of Pretty Woman. 

 The latter had nearly passed all of this, when she got deep in the mire 

 and could not escape from Crooked Teeth, who went to her and 

 killed her. 



Then Crooked Teeth took off the skin of Pretty Woman, and put it 

 on herself. She took the little shoes, and proceeded to the house of the 

 chief. The chief, when he saw her, thought that she was his wife. 

 She took the child and said to his mother's brother, "Your sister's 

 child must have a strong desire to be nursed. Take him up and hand 

 him to me." So the j^oung man took the child and handed him to the 

 supposed mother. She wished to nurse him, but the child refused to 

 be nursed, screaming vehemently. Then said the supposed mother, 

 "I went far away for your sake, and now that I have returned, is it 

 possible that you do not know me?" She was very angr}^, and hit the 

 child. Then the child's uncle took it and carried it to the edge of the 

 stream, singing as he went along. When he got there, the true mother 

 was sitting far out in the stream, making a slapping or splashing sound 

 in the water. On his approach with the child she came to land, and 

 received the child from her brother. She nursed it and handed it back 

 to her brother, who took it home again. 



When they reached home, the child's father suspected that his 

 brother-in-law had taken the child to the true mother, and remarked, 

 "How is it possible that the child should smell so bad after being 

 nursed?" And when the uncle replied, "1 got some milk from a 

 rattan vine and gave to it," the chief said, "No matter where my 

 wife is, tell me." Then Pretty Woman's brother said, "Yonder 

 woman does not wish her to come back." Whereupon the chief said 

 to the disguised Crooked Teeth, "Make a very large tire, and hasten 

 to cook food so that they may eat it and go hunting." While the bad 

 woman stood there superintending the cooking, first one man pushed 

 her, then the other, and they finally pushed her into the fire where she 

 was burnt to death. 



Then the chief went with his brother-in-law in search of Pretty 

 Woman. When they had nearly reached the place, the chief changed 

 himself into a decayed tree, and the woman's brother went to the 

 edge of the water and sang, causing the woman to come ashore. He 



