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chili and see if the young man is coming around." He carried the 

 gum boy in a bag. When he got to the garden he looked back to see 

 if the old woman was peeping out. When he saw the old woman 

 was not watchmg, he took out the boy and stood him in the rabbit 

 hole and said, "Now, be a man! You have to catch the young man 

 who is inside." So he went back to the garden and to the house. 

 He said to the old woman, "Old woman, we have bad news." "WTiat 

 is it?" "The yoimg man came around and said it was a bright day. 

 He could not do anything, but he will be here to-night." The old 

 woman began to cry, "We can not wait untU to-night. By then all 

 the garden will be taken away by the young man." " No, old woman, 

 do not worry! We'U get him, we'll get him!" At sundowTi the old 

 man went to see if the rabbit had been caught by the young man. 

 Not caught yet. The rabbit wanted to come out, but he saw the form 

 of a man, and he kept back. The rabbit was hungry. He said, 

 "I am going out to get something to eat." He got to the door and 

 said to the young man, "Who are you?" He did not answer. He 

 asked him three times. The fourth time he asked, "Who are you? 

 If you do not answer, I am going to hit you. I have to go out. You 

 may be a man, but I am a man myself. I am going to lick you." 

 So the rabbit went close, and knocked him with his right hand, 

 and his hand stuck in the gum. "I am a man," he said. "Let me 

 go. But if you do not let me go, I have another hand to lick you." 

 He licked with his left hand, and stuck to the gum. "Let me go, my 

 friend (puyu) ! If you do not let me go, I have my foot to luck you 

 with." So his foot stuck. "Let me go, I have another foot to kick 

 with." So he lucked him, and now he was stuck by his feet and hands. 

 Then he said, "Let me go! To show you that I am a man, I have 

 my head left yet; I can hit you mth my head." So he stuck there. 

 Next morning early the old man said to the old woman, "Old woman, 

 I think I heard a noise. I am going to see if he has caught the young 

 man." So he went out to the hole and foimd the rabbit sticking 

 to the gum, and he said, "Heh, I got you now!" And he said to 

 the gum, "I always knew you were a man and that you could do 

 what I told you." He went to the house and called the old woman. 

 "Old woman, you know what?" "What is it?" "The yoimg man 

 that I went to call to catch the other young man has caught hina 

 already." The old woman came out running and clapping her hands 

 and saying, "Korkem! (thanks) Korkem! Korkem!" He went in 

 with the gum and the rabbit and the old woman was surprised. And 

 she looked at the rabbit and said, "Are you the one that was stealing 

 my chin and my melons?" The old man put his hand to liis fore- 

 head and said, "Yes, yes. You were the one destroying all my work. 

 But now I am going to make (something) good out of you." And 

 he said to the old woman, "Old woman, don't worry about him. 



