"Yes, but what makes the roots so big? I never saw any like these."
"That's because I only take the flowers from the plants that have the biggest roots. And if any of the new roots are little, I throw away the flowers from them. Far away."
"What do you do with the little roots?"
"Eat them."
"I don't understand. If you eat the little roots, why don't you get little roots?"
"You are being foolish again!" the young woman said. "A tall man has tall sons."
"If he eats the meat of a tall animal," said the young man.
"That has nothing to do with it."
"My friend's father, who lives near the river, always eats the fat of the game they kill, and he is fat. So you see!"
"That has nothing to do with it," she said, and went into the cave.