The boys heard people talking inside the glutton. Having told their mother, she took a knife and cut it open, when people came out, and cattle, and dogs. The people asked: “Who killed the glutton?”
The mother of the twins told them, and they rewarded the boys with a large number of cattle. [[176]]
STORY OF THE GREAT CHIEF OF THE ANIMALS.
There was once a woman who had occasion to leave her home for a short time, and who left her children in charge of a hare. The place where they lived was close to a path, along which droves of wild animals were accustomed to pass.
Soon after the woman left, the animals appeared, and the hare at sight of them became frightened. So she ran away to a distance, and stood to watch. Among the animals was one terrible monster, which called to the hare, and demanded to know what children those were. The hare told their names, upon which the animal swallowed them entire.
When the woman returned, the hare told her what had happened. Then the woman gathered some dry wood, and sharpened two [[177]]pieces of iron, which she took with her and went along the path.
Now this was the chief of the animals; therefore, when she came on a hill over against him, the woman began to call out that she was looking for her children. The animal replied: “Come nearer, I cannot hear you.”
When she went, he swallowed her also. The woman found her children alive, and also many other people, and oxen, and dogs. The children were hungry, so the woman with her pieces of iron cut some pieces of flesh from the animal’s ribs. She then made a fire and cooked the meat, and the children ate.
The other people said: “We also are hungry, give us to eat.”