The boy made a fold to keep his cattle in; his sister made a garden and planted millet. The crocodile sent more cattle. The boy made a very big fold, and it was full of cattle.
At this time there came a bird.
The bird said: “Your sister has performed the custom, and as for you, you should enter manhood.” [[38]]
The crocodile gave one of his daughters to be the wife of the young man. The young woman went to the village of the crocodile, she went to be a bride.
They said to her: “Whom do you choose to be your husband?”
The girl replied: “I choose Crocodile.”
Her husband said to her: “Lick my face.”
She did so. The crocodile cast off its skin, and arose a man of great strength and fine appearance.
He said: “The enemies of my father’s house did that; you, my wife, are stronger than they.”
After this there was a great famine, and the mother of those people came to their village. She did not recognise her children, but they knew her and gave her food. She went away, and then their father came. He did not recognise them either, but they knew him. They asked him what he wanted. He told them that his village was devoured by famine. They gave him food, and he went away.