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lessness). There is a feed over there. Yet you are at home ? " (lying down). Then she said, — " Truly has an animal died, O Spider?" Then he said, — ''Come out, and let us go with all speed." Then she came out, and they went off (were travelling). Then he came upon the saddle-cloth on the road, and said, — " O, Hyaena, if I take this saddle-cloth and put it on your back and mount, we shall go more quickly." So she said, — " Spider, take (it) and put (it on) by all means." So he took (it), and put it on and mounted. Then he went (a little way) and came upon the saddle also, and said, — " O Hysena, your back is sharp (with pricking), I had better girth on the saddle that I may feel com- fortable (while) riding." So she said, — " Take (it) and put (it on) by all means." He put (it on) and mounted. Then he went and got the bridle also, and said, — " O Hysena, if I put this on you, if you were about to fall through the slipperiness (if slipperiness were about to bring you down), if I pulled (it) really you would not fall." So the Hysena said, — " Take (it) and put (it on) by all means." So he put the bridle on her and mounted. Then, (as) he was going along, he got the spurs and said, — " Let me put these on. If I touch you, you will go more quickly." When he had put on the spurs and had mounted the Hysena, he kept on digging (moving to one side) the spurs into her stomach, (so that) she lost control of herself (was dropping), and he brought her to the Learned Man. He said, — " O Learned Man, mount. Here is the Hyasna. I have brought her to you." So he (Learned Man) made a charm for popularity, and gave (it) to the Spider. Then the Learned Man went off, towards Kano. The Spider said, — " When you go to Kano, do not tie her up with a leather thong. Put a chain on her." Then the Learned Man said to the Hysena, — "Stop, the Spider is saying something behind (us)." But she said, — " I heard. He said, — '* When you have gone to Kano, you (must) tie me with a thong. He said you must not chain me up. If you put a chain on me I shall die." " Then he spurred her, and they went on quickly (with a run). When he came to Kano, he dismounted, and he tied her up with a thong (hide). So, when night came, the Hy^na ate the hide. She drank the water for the house,° and ate up the fowls belonging to ^ Brought by the women and left in pots in the house.