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Rh selves: Then Antelope stood up. | He laughed at his enemy. Frog was lying there. Then he looked | at Antelope. They said: "Now start!" Then Frog || jumped up. Antelope laughed. | His enemy 46 looked funny to him, (Antelope) did not run fast | when Frog gave his first jump. Then another Frog lay there and | jumped up, and all the Frogs did so. Then | Antelope did not go very fast. He had not gone far when he was left behind. || Then Antelope ran more 50 quickly. He was left far behind. | He ran fast; but even when he ran fast, the Frogs | were ahead of him. Then he arrived at the turning place; | and when he got there, the Frogs lay down in the opposite direction. Then | Antelope turned back, but the Frogs were always ahead of him. || Then Antelope tried hard. He knew | 55 that he would be beaten. Antelope was not yet near the starting point I when Frog arrived. Then all laughed; but | the people were sick at heart, because Frog had won. Frog was looked at. | He was not out of breath, because he had just given one jump || and then had 60 not moved any more. He just jumped back from there. | Therefore he was not out of breath, but Antelope was puffing. | He lay on his back, and said: | "You beat me, Frog." Then Frog took what he had won. | He went back, and those who lay down did not move. || In the evening they went back, and it was heard by all that | Frog 65 had beaten Antelope. |

Now I have told how Frog beat | Antelope in olden times.

Well, I'll tell a story of how a girl was married | to a star.

The people of olden times lived in a tent. Two girls went out. | When they were about to go to sleep, one of them looked up. She saw || many stars. She saw a small one, and said: | "That is a 5 nice little star [hanging] there. I'll marry him." Then | the two girls laughed when she said so. They went in again. | After they had slept, early in the morning she woke up. There was talking, | and she knew that those were not the voices of her parents. · She arose, and she saw || that she did not know the people. She was sitting 10 down next to an old man. | She knew that she was married to him. She saw many other | young men. She thought: "When there are many | youths, why don't they marry me? My husband is old." I He said to her: "Here I am! The other. || night you said to me, 15 'You little nice one! Marry me.' | Now I have taken you." She looked