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BOOTCHUANA TALES. 
The conduct of his parents obliged him to flee from 
that part of the country. In his flight he came in sight 
of a large town, but sav*^ no inhabitants, only cattle 
feeding arbund. Apprehensive of danger, he rubbed his 
body over with a magical ointment. Arriving at the 
town, he called at a house, where he found a young 
"woman employed in boiling human flesh, who said, 
" Why are you come here? Do you not see that I am 
boiling the flesh of men?" Though dumb he was able 
to ask her why she did so, adding, " Let old women 
do it if they will." Upon which an old woman called 
out angrily to the young one to come to her ; but on her 
refusing, she threatened to boil her also. The girl being 
afraid would have fled, had not the dumb lad forbidden 
her to flee, and promised to protect her. The old wo- 
men then ran to her in a rage ; but the lad immediately 
set his dogs against her, and she was torn to pieces ; 
the dogs eating some parts of her body, and burying 
others. The lad then seized and carried off many of the 
cattle belonging to the place ; most of which he gave to 
his little sister, as a reward for warning him of the 
danger he was in from his parents, and by means af 
which he had escaped with his life. 
CRUELTY OF AN UNCLE TO AN ORPHAN NIECE. 
THERE was a little girl and her sister who were 
orphans, and lived with an uncle and aunt. On one oc- 
casion, when the two latter were absent in the field, the 
youngest girl cried so much for some food, that her sister 
ventured to give her a portion to pacify her. When her 
uncle returned from the field, and found out what had 
been done, he was so enraged that he resolved to have 
her put to death. To execute his purpose, he took her 
with him to a distance from the place where they lived. 
