75. The Giant
There was a town. All the youths were eaten by a giant. | Then 60 an old woman and her husband cried, for their children were dead. | Every day the giant went to that town at night. | There, at the far end, was a tent. He went there, | and he saw an old man and an old woman. He thought: || "I'll sleep, and in the morning I'll eat the old 65 man and | the old woman." Then he slept. Early in the morning the old couple cried. | While crying, the old woman arose. She was about to start a fire, | when she saw some one sleeping. She looked at hint. It was | the giant. She told her husband: "Look at the giant sleeping || in our tent!" The husband arose, took | his knife, 70 and cut oflf the giant's head. He shouted. | The people said: "Why are the old couple glad? | They were crying." They went there, and the giant was lying there. They had killed him. |
Now I have told what the old couple did || long ago. | 75
76. The Giant[1]
Well, I'll tell you what happened to a newly married man | among the people of olden times who became a giant. |
There was a town. There was a newly married youth. He went hunting. | The newly married youth was a skillful || hunter. (I do not 5 know his name.) He killed | a mountain sheep. He skinned it. After skinning it, he felt hungry. | He thought: "I will dry some of it, so that it may be light. | I will carry it to-morrow. It is far, and it would be heavy if I should not dry it." | Then he made a place to dry it. He began to cut up || the meat, and hung it up. He was lo about to hang almost all | on his drying frame. There were two thin pieces of meat | lying there. He did not know where they fell off from. I He was hungry. He thought: "I'll eat it." He put the meat on the fire; | and when it was done, he ate. It tasted good.|| What he had killed did not taste that way. He, thought: "What 15 may it be, that it tastes so good?" | He looked at it for some time, but he did not see where it had come from. | Then he sat down. When it was dark, he felt a pain here. | He looked, and he saw that his own flesh was missing. | lie looked at it, and he saw that a knife had done it. Then || he knew that it was his own flesh that tasted 20 good. I He thought: '^Well, I'll cut off another piece of my flesh." | He cut it off, put it on the fire, and when it was done he ate it Then he saw | that it tasted good. Plewanted some more. He began to cook I his flesh on the fire, and, although he had eaten, he wanted,
some more. || Then there was no more flesh on his legs. It was late
- ↑ See p. 82.
