“You dirty son of your father,
Are you there? Are you alone not thirsty?
Oh, you dirty child of your father!
Dirty child of your father!”
“I am indeed thirsty,” said “One-eye,” and went away.
Then the two girls came out of the hole, and the younger one took her elder sister on her back, and walked on. As they were going over the bare, treeless plain, the men saw them, and said, “There they are, far off,” and ran after them.
When they came near, the two girls turned themselves into thorn trees, called “Wait-a-bit,” and the beads which they wore became gum on the trees. The men then ate of the gum and fell asleep. Whilst they slept, the girls smeared gum over the men’s eyes and went away, leaving them lying in the sun.
The girls were already near their kraal, when “One-eye” awoke, and said:
“Oh, the disgrace! fie on thee!
Our eyes are smeared over; fie on thee, my brother!”