Then the bird having said, “Hā. It is good,” the Hunchback said, “I put rice on the hearth to boil, and came away. You go and look after it.”
After the bird had gone to the Hunchback’s house, she found that the water was insufficient for cooking the rice, and except that it was making a sound, “Kuja tapa tapa, kuja tapa tapa,” it was not cooking.
So the bird went to the Hunchback, and said, “The water is insufficient for cooking the rice. It only says ‘Kuja tapa tapa, kuja tapa tapa.’[4] Bring water, O Hunchback.”
The Hunchback became angry [at the nicknames], and having come home, when he was taking a water-pot to the well, a frog sitting on the well mouth jumped into the well, making a sound, “Kujija būs.”[5]
Then the Hunchback, having drawn and drawn up the water from the well, caught and killed the frog, and tried to fill the water-pot with water. The water continuing, as he poured it, to make a sound “Kuja kuṭu kuṭu, kuja kuṭu kuṭu,”[6] except that it splashed up does not fill the water-pot.
Through anger at it, he took the water-pot and struck it against the mouth of the well, and smashed it.
While he was coming home he met a Village Headman. The Village Headman asked, “Where, Mr. Hunchback, did you go?”
The Hunchback said, “What is the journey on which I am going to thee, Bola, O Heretic?” and having come home, killed the Pied Robin, and ate the cakes that the bird brought.
North-western Province.