Your daughter-in-law, the Ginduri fish is dying.”
At this sound the workmen were frightened and stopped; but Bhagrit made them go on, saying that whatever happened should be on his head. And when the dams were finished, they began to bale out the water; thereupon a voice sang:—
“Do not bale the water, father,
Do not bale the water, father.
Your daughter-in-law, the Ginduri fish is dying.”
But they paid no attention and baled the water dry, and at the bottom of the pool they found an enormous fish, for the bonga girl had turned into a fish. And they went to kill it, but the fish sang:—
“Do not hit me, father,
Do not hit me, father,
Your daughter-in-law, the Ginduri fish is dying.”
Nevertheless they killed it and dragged it on to the bank. Then they began to cut it up, and as they did so, it sang:—