One day the mother of Simbukumbukwana went to work in her garden, and left the boy at home with the door fastened. While she was away the girl came; she stood at a distance and said: “Where are the people?”
There came a voice from inside which said: “Here am I.”
She said: “Who are you?” [[74]]
The voice replied: “I am Simbukumbukwana.”
She said: “Open for me.”
He answered: “How can I open? I have no legs and no arms.”
She said: “My mother’s Simbukumbukwana, have legs and arms” (Simbukumbukwana sikama, yiba nemilenze nemikono).
Then legs and arms came on the boy, and he arose and opened for his sister. She went in and swept the floor; then she took millet and ground it and made bread. She told her brother when his parents asked him who did these things to say that he did them himself, and if they should ask him to do them again to reply, “I have done it already.” Then she said: “My mother’s Simbukumbukwana, sink legs and sink arms” (Simbukumbukwana sikama, tshona milenze tshona mikono). Then his legs and arms shrunk up, and his sister went away.
After a time his father and his mother came home; they went in and saw the clean floor and bread ready for eating. They were surprised, and said to Simbukumbukwana, “Who did this?” [[75]]
He replied: “I did.”