The elder one said: “How can you say such a thing? Did not mother give us this meat to eat?”
Again the younger one said: “Look at this, it is like the finger of mother.”
Hlakanyana said: “You are speaking evil of me, my son.”
Hlakanyana said in himself: “I shall be discovered; it is time for me to flee.” So he slipped quietly out of the house and went on his way. When he got a little way off, he called out: “You are eating your mother. Did any one ever see people eating their mother before?”
The two young men took their assagais and ran after him with their dogs. They came to the river; it was full.
The cunning fellow changed himself into [[101]]a little round stone. One of the young men picked up this stone, saying: “If I could see him, I would just throw this stone at him.” The young man threw the stone over the river, and it turned into Hlakanyana again. He just laughed at those young men.
Hlakanyana went on his way. He was singing this song:—
| Ndahlangana Nonothloya. Sapekapekana, Ndagwanya, Wapekwa wada wavutwa. | I met with Nonothloya. We cooked each other, I was half cooked, She was well cooked. |
Hlakanyana met a boy tending some goats. The boy had a digging-stick with him. Hlakanyana proposed that they should pursue after birds, and the boy agreed. They pursued birds the whole day.
In the evening, when the sun set, Hlakanyana said: “It is time now to roast our birds.”