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CHILDREN'S STORIES 333 



After she brought the Httle Fawns home, she turned them loose 

 inside the house, and they walked about. She fed them with corn 

 mush and what else she could every morning. That is how she 

 nursed them. Little by httle the young Fawns began to grow. As 

 they grew older, they got accustomed to the house. The Old 

 Giantess used to take them outside for pleasure every day, and they 

 played around there. They would walk up the road for a distance 

 and then return again. As the Old Giantess fed them, they slowly 

 grew larger. Every day the Old Giantess would say to them: 

 "Little ones, I believe your little kidneys are already pretty fat." 

 Thus she would say to them as she felt their little kidneys. And 

 the little Fawns said to each other: "Let us rim away from the Old 

 Giantess, for she tells us every day that our little kidneys are already 

 fat, and is likely to roast us and eat us up." In a short time the 

 little Fawns began to get more afraid. One night they said to each 

 other: "To-morrow we must run away, lest the Old Giantess roast 

 us and devour us." 



The next morning the Old Giantess gave them their breakfast 

 and took them outside to play as usual. "Now let us run away. 

 We will walk up the road where we usually go, but this time we will 

 go and will not return." As they said thus, they started off. The 

 Old Spider Woman, who happened to live near by, was sitting for 

 pleasure on the roof of her house. As she watched the little Fawns 

 going along the road, she said: "The little Fawns of the Old Giantess 

 are running away." When the Old Giantess heard this, she said to 

 herself: "They go as far as the top and then come back again." 

 The little Fawns were already going c[uite a distance up the road. 

 Old Spider Woman was heard saying again from the top of her 

 house: "The little Fawns of the Old Giantess are running away." 

 Old Spider Woman kept repeating this every once in a while. "It 

 must be so," said the Old Giantess, as she put her shawl on her 

 shoulders, took her cane, went outside her house, and saw that her 

 Fawns were already quite a distance away. "Sure enough, my 

 Fawns are running away." As she said thus, she followed the 

 Fawns. 



The little Fawns went along and came to Paxapata on the river. 

 Going on, they came to where Big NostrU had his blanket spread 

 out and was looking for lice. "What is the matter, little ones? 

 Where are you going?" Big Nostril said to them. "We are running 

 away because the Old Giantess threatened to kill us, feeling our little 

 kidneys every day. So please hide us." "Very well," said Big 

 Nostril, "enter my nostrils." So the little Fawns went into his 

 nostrUs. In a short time the Old Giantess came, all sweating, to 

 where Big Nostril was sitting lumting Hcc. "Big Nostril, I am 

 following my Fawns, who are running away from me. Have you 



