378 FOLK LORE 



" You smell of meat, where is it ? " But the boy 

 denied it, and ran back to his village, hotly pur- 

 sued, and shouting to his family to hide themselves. 

 This they did, and when the cannibals arrived, 

 they saw the meat of the hartebeeste and ate it ; 

 then they searched in the granary, and found the 

 old woman and ate her ; they then discovered the 

 boy's father and ate him ; but when the wife fell 

 into their hands, they were already quite full, and 

 told her they would hold her in reserve and eat 

 her on the morrow. But she made a bargain with 

 them that they were to spare her if she gave them 

 the boy who had deceived them and six large jars 

 of beer. So she brought the beer, and then said 

 she would call him. But instead of that she hid 

 herself until the middle of the night, and then went 

 back to where the cannibals lay drunk, and killed 

 them all with a spear. 



The Hare's Charm 



Two little girls were walking back to the village 

 one morning, each carrying a large pot of water on 

 her head, when the one who walked in front 

 dropped hers, and it fell to the ground and was 

 broken. So she cried, and cried, and was afraid to 

 go home, knowing full well that she would be 

 severely beaten; but her companion said, "Stay 

 here until I go with my pot, and I will see if your 

 mother is really very angry. If she is, I will come 

 and tell you." So she went to the village and told 

 her companion's mother what had happened. As 

 she expected, the woman was very angry, so she 



