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He could not eat me. | Now he is pursuing me.’’ Then they moved 
away. The giant’s wife | staid behind. The young woman said: ‘IT 
want |.to stay. I love my husband.” The youth said to her: | “He 
is no longer the one who used to love you. || Heis terrible.” The 
woman did not want to leave. | Then they moved away. The 
woman staid behind. She thought: ‘“‘He loves me.” | It was not 
long before she heard him coming along | the way the boy had come. 
Some one said: ‘‘Oh, I love my little son! | [ll eat him. I love my 
wife. I'll eat her.’’ || Then she saw him coming. She saw that he 
looked terrible. | He was no longer a human being. She thought: 
“Ton’t let me be afraid; | he is my husband.’”’ Then she did not 
move, and he arrived. | She said to him: ‘‘My husband, I love you. 
What | makes you like this?’”” That man the giant said: “I am no 
longer || a human being.” He arrivedathis tent. Hesat down. | He 
said to her: ‘‘Give me myson!’’ She gave him to (her husband), | 
who made him dance. He held him tightly. The giant said: “I 
love | my littleson. Vlleat him.” He held him tightly | and made 
him dance. He made him defecate. Now the woman knew || that he 
was about to kill him. She said to him: ‘‘Give him to me for a 
little while. | V1l go and wash him. His excrement is bad. | Then 
when I bring himback youmayeathim.” He let himgo. | The woman 
started. After she had washed him, she ran away | where the people had 
gone. After some time, when his wife did not arrive, || the giant went 
out. He looked for his wife. | He knew that she had deceived him. 
Then he started | the way they had gone. The many people were go- 
ing along. | They said: ‘‘What shall we do with him? How shall we 
kill him?” | They said: ‘‘Let us try (and see) if we can kill him.” | 
There was a cliff ; and below it wasa lake, a deep | lake. It was deep. 
Then they dug a hole in the cliff, | and one man staid there. He said: | 
“T’ll kick down the giant. He will be drowned in the deep lake.” | 
Then the people staid a little ways off. || The giant was seen coming 
along.. A little ways off he was heard coming. | He was talking. 
He said: ‘““When I | overtake you, ’ll eat all of you. My brother 
whom I ate tasted good to me.” | Then the many people | were afraid 
when he said that he would eat all of them. They thought || of 
running away. The one who was about to kill him said: | “Don’t 
move! If I can not kill him, then you may run away.” | Then 
nobody moved. | Then the giant arrived. The trail was close to | the 
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