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86 his feet were light in the dance and grew not weary.

Therefore he ceased, for he had found what he had sought for so long, and he stood over the body of a slain enemy, one foot being on either side of the body, and cried, "Oh, my people, flesh meat is good indeed, but what can compare with the flesh of an enemy?" Then was he turned into stone, as also was the body of the slain man, and they remain to this day on the hillside of Qamana, that all men may know how great a man was Dakodako and how true are the words which he spake.



ago there grew on the beach an almond tree, which bare fruit plentifully. And men came and climbed the tree and shook its boughs, so that much fruit fell upon the ground. And the children underneath threw stones, and hit other of the almonds, which fell and were eaten. Thus was the almond tree spoiled of her fruit. But there still hung upon the tree a cluster of three almonds, and they remained until they were very ripe. Then they fell and lay beneath the tree.

Now as they thus lay the largest began to move, and turned from side to side continually. On a