His mother replied: “It has been eaten by a dog.”
Hlakanyana said: “As that is so, give me the bones, for you who are the wife of the chief will not eat from the same pot with a dog.”
His mother gave him the bones.
Hlakanyana went to sleep in the same house with the boys. The boys were unwilling to let him sleep with them. They laughed at him.
They said: “Who are you? You are just a child of a few days.”
Hlakanyana answered: “I am older than you.”
He slept there that night. When the boys were asleep, he got up and went to the cattle [[95]]kraal. He killed two cows and ate all their insides. He took blood and smeared it on one of the boys who was sleeping. In the morning the men found those two dead cows.
They said: “Who has done this thing?”
They found the boy with blood upon him, and killed him, because they thought he was the robber.
Hlakanyana said within himself: “I told them that I was older than they are; to-day it is seen who is a child and who is a man.”