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edge of the cliff. There staid || the one who was going to. kill him. 
Then the giant arrived. | He was kicked hard. When he saw that he 
was about to be kicked, | he tried to take hold of the leg, but he 
missed it. | He began to fall. The cliff was high. At the bottom | he 
fell into the water; and because only his bonesremained, || he could not 
swim, and sank at once. They looked for him a long time, | but he 
was not seen again. Thus the giant was killed. | 
Now I have told you how a person long ago | became quickly 
a giant. | 
77. THe MorTHER-IN-LAW TABOO 
Long ago the people used to be ashamed of each other. | Mother- 
in-law and son-in-law could not talk to each other. They could not 
look | at their faces. When mother-in-law and son-in-law met, they 
were afraid of each other. | Those who were not ashamed of the 
mother-in-law were known || not to love her. Whoever was much 
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ashamed of | his mother-in-law was known to love her very much. | | 
The reason why he is ashamed is that then his mother-in-law will 
never get angry at him and never scold him. | Whoever is not 
ashamed of his mother-in-law is known | to be always angry at her, 
and never afraid to scold || his mother-in-law. The people held it this 
way in olden times. | Now they forget how their grandparents used 
to do, | because they met white people. | This is the way the mother- 
in-law and son-in-law did, | and why they are not ashamed of each 
other any more. | 
