No. 42
The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Mouse-deer
The Kaḍambāwa men having appointed a wedding-[day], and having caught a great many Mouse-deer [for eating at it], tied clappers on their necks like those on goats, and having made an enclosure put them in it, and came away. The Mouse-deer escaped into the jungle.
Having gone to it on the wedding-day, when they looked there was not one Mouse-deer left. Then the men, saying, “Anē! The Mouse-deer that we reared have all gone,” came back to the village, much astonished.
No. 43
The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Bush
As the Kaḍambāwa men were going away with some drums one night, to attend a devil-dance, they met with a Warā[1] bush on the path, which looked like an elephant. The men became afraid, thinking, “Maybe an elephant has come onto the path.” At the shaking of the leaves of the Warā bush they said, “He is shaking his ears.”
Being afraid to go past the elephant, they beat the drums until it became light, to frighten the Warā bush. When they looked after it became light, it was not an elephant; it was a Warā tree. After that, they came back to their village. So they had neither the devil-dance nor went to sleep.