In the morning, when Masilo and his wife went to the garden, they were in doubt, and said:
“Is it really the place we were digging yesterday?”
They saw that it was the place by the people working on each side. The people began to laugh at them, and mocked them, and said: “It is because you are very lazy.”
They continued to dig again that day, and in the evening they went home with the others.
Then the bird came and did the same thing.
When they went back next morning, they found their ground altogether undug. Then they believed that they were bewitched by some others.
They continued digging that day again. But in the evening when the companies returned, Masilo said to his wife:
“Go home; I will stay behind to watch and find the thing which eats our work.”
Then he went and laid himself down by the head of the garden, under the same house which the bird used always to stand upon. [[42]]While he was thinking, the bird came. It was a very beautiful bird. He was looking at it and admiring it, when it began to speak.
It said: “Masilo’s cultivated ground, mix together.”