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75. Tue GIANT 
There was a town. All the youths were eaten by a giant. | Then 
n old woman and her husband cried, for their children were dead. | 
Every day the giant went to that town at night. | There, at the far 
end, was a tent. He went there, | and he saw an old man and an old 
woman. He thought: | “I'll sleep, and in the morning I’ll eat the old 
man and | the old woman.’ Then he slept. Early in the morning 
the old couple cried. | While crying, the old woman arose. She was 
about to start a fire, | when she saw some one sleeping. She looked 
at him. It was | the giant. She told her husband: ‘‘Look at the 
giant sleeping || inour tent!’? The husband arose, took | his knife, 
and cut off the giant’s head. He shouted. | The people said: ‘‘ Why 
are the old couple glad? | They were crying.’”’ They went there, and 
the giant was lying there. They had killed him. | 
Now I have told what the old couple did || long ago. | 
76. THe GIANT! 
Well, I'll tell you what happened to a newly married man | among 
the people of olden times who became a giant. | 
There was a town. There was a newly married youth. He went 
hunting. | The newly married youth was askillful || hunter. (I do not 
know hisname.) He killed | amountain sheep. Heskinnedit. After 
skinning it, he felt hungry. | He thought: ‘TI will dry some of it, so 
that it may be light. | I will carry it to-morrow. It is far, and it 
would be heavy if I should not dry it.” | Then he made a place to 
dry it. He began to cut up || the meat, and hung it up. He was 
about to hang almost all | on his drying frame. There were two thin 
pieces of meat | lying there. He did not know where they fell off 
from. | He was hungry. He thought: “T’'ll eat it.” He put the 
meat on the fire; | and when it was done, he ate. It tasted good. || 
What he had killed did not taste that way. He thought: ‘‘ What 
may it be, that it tastes so good?”’ | He looked at it for some time, 
but he did not see where it had come from. | Then he sat down. 
When it was dark, he felt a pain here. | He looked, and he saw that 
his own flesh was missing. | He looked at it, and he saw that a knife 
had done it. Then || he knew that it was his own flesh that tasted 
good. | He thought: “Well, I'll cut off another piece of my flesh.” | 
He cut it off, put it on the fire, and when it was done he ate it 
Then he saw | that it tasted good. Hewanted some more. He began 
to cook | his flesh on the fire, and, although he had eaten, he wanted. 
some more. || Then there was no more flesh on his legs. _ It was late 
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