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selves. Then Antelope stood up. | He laughed at his enemy. Frog 
' was lying there. Then he looked | at Antelope. They said: ‘Now 
start!’? Then Frog || jumped up. Antelope laughed. | His enemy 45 
looked funny to him. (Antelope) did not run fast | when Frog gave 
his first jump. Then another Frog lay there and | jumped up, and 
all the Frogs did so. Then | Antelope did not go very fast. He had 
not gone far when he was left behind. || Then Antelope ran more 
quickly. He was left far behind. | He ran fast; but even when he 
ran fast, the Frogs | were ahead of him. Then he arrived at the 
turning place; | and when he got there, the Frogs lay down in the 
opposite direction. Then | Antelope turned back, but the Frogs 
were always ahead of him. || Then Antelope tried hard. He knew | 
that he would be beaten. Antelope was not yet near the starting 
point | when Frog arrived. Then all laughed; but | the people were 
sick at heart, because Frog had won. Frog-was looked at. | He was 
not out of breath, because he had just given one jump || and then had 
not moved any more. He just jumped back from there. | Therefore 
he was not out of breath, but Antelope was puffing. | He lay on his 
back, and said: | ‘“You beat me, Frog.”’ Then Frog took what he 
had won. | He went back, and those who lay down did not move.|| 
In the evening they went back, and it was heard by all that | Frog 
had. beaten Antelope. | 
Now I have told how Frog baat | Antelope in olden times. | 
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Well, I'll tell a story of how a girl was married | to a star. | 
The people of olden times livedina tent. Two girls went out. | 
When they were about to go to sleep, one of them looked up. 
She saw || many stars. She saw a small one, and said: | ‘That is a 
nice little star [hanging] there. I'll marry him.” Then | the two 
girls laughed when she said so. They went in again. | After they 
had slept, early in the morning she woke up. There was talking, | 
and she knew that those were not the voices of her parents. She 
arose, and she saw | that she did not know the people. She was sit- 
ting down next to an old man. | She knew that she was married 
to him. She saw many other | young men. She thought: ‘“‘When 
there are many | youths, why don’t they marry me? My husband is 
old.’ | Hesaidto her: “HereIam! The other || night you said to me, 
“You little nice one! Marry me.’ | Now I have taken you.” She looked 
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