Her husband answered: “What are you dreaming about? They are not here.”
She went to the corner where they were, and took the skins away. When she saw them, she said: “My children, I am very [[139]]sorry that you are here, because I must eat people.”
She cooked for them and their father the animal she had brought home, and the dead man for herself. After they had eaten, she went out.
Then their father said to them: “When we lie down to sleep, you must be watchful. You will hear a dancing of people, a roaring of wild beasts, and a barking of dogs in your mother’s stomach. You will know by that she is sleeping, and you must then rise at once and get away.”
They lay down, but the man and the children only pretended to go to sleep. They were listening for those sounds. After a while they heard a dancing of people, a roaring of wild beasts, and a barking of dogs. Then their father shook them, and said they must go while their mother was sleeping. They bade their father farewell, and crept out quietly, that their mother might not hear them.
At midnight the woman woke up, and when she found the children were gone, she took her axe and went after them. They were already a long way on their journey, when they [[140]]saw her following them. They were so tired that they could not run.
When she was near them, the boy said to the girl: “My sister, sing your melodious song; perhaps when she hears it she will be sorry, and go home without hurting us.”
The girl replied: “She will not listen to anything now, because she is in want of meat.”
Hinazinci said: “Try, my sister; it may not be in vain.”
So she sang her song, and when the cannibal heard it, she ran backwards to her own house. There she fell upon her husband, and wanted to cut him with the axe. Her husband caught hold of her arm, and said: “Ho! if you put me to death who will be your husband?”