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Rh He could not eat me. | Now lie is pursuing me/' Then they moved away. The giant's wife | staid behind. The young woman said: "I want I to stay. I love my husband" The youth said to her: | "He is no longer the one who used to love you. || He is terrible." The 75 woman did not want to leave. | Then they moved away. The Woman staid behind. She thought: "He loves me." | It was not long before she heard him coming along | the way the boy had come- Some one said: "Oh, I love my little son! | I'll eat him. I love my wife. I'll eat her." || Then she saw him coming. She saw -that he 80 looked terrible. | He was no longer a human being. She thought: "Don't let me be afraid; | he is my husband." Then she did not move, and he arrived. | She said to him: "My husband, I love you. What I makes you like this?" That man the giant said: "I am no longer || a human being." He arrived at his tent. He sat down. | He 85 said to her: "Give me my son!" She gave him to (her husband), | who made him dance. He held him tightly. The giant said: "I love I my Uttle son. I'll eat him." He held him tightly | and made him dance. He made him defecate. Now the woman knew || that he 90 was about to kill him. She said to him: "Give him to me for a Uttle while. | I'll go and wash him. His excrement is bad. | Then whenlbringhimbackyoumayeathim." Hclcthimgo. | The woman started. After she had washed him, she ran away | where the people had gone. After some time, when his wife did not arrive, || the giant went 95 out. He looked for his wife. | He knew that she had deceived him. Then he started | the way they had gone. The many people were go- ing, along. I They said: " Wliat shall we do with him ? How shall we kill him?" | They said: "Let us try (and see) if we can kill him." || There was a cliff ; and below it was a lake, a deep | lake. It was deep. 100 Then they dug a hole in the cliff, | and one man staid there. He said: | "I'll kick down the giant. lie will be drowned in the deep lake." | Then the people staid a little ways off. || The giant was seen coming 105 along. A little ways off he was heard coming. | He was talking. He said: "When I | overtake you, I'll cat all of you. My brother whom I ate tasted good to me." | Then the many people | were afraid when he said that he would eat all of them. They thought || of 110 running away. The one who was about to kill him said: | "Don't move! If I can not kill him, then you may run away." | Then nobody moved. | Then the giant arrived. The trail was close to | the