2.1 The Hyena took the castrated ram and went and it killed
it. And it and ate
it
2.2 with his wife. Asekaren and the children. They ate
the castrated ram
sloppily
2.3 over all the days. Finished now he came to speak about
which day the
wrestling match
2.4 would be. He said, they decided on Market Day.
2.5 And they came together in the circle. Now all to the
bush animals came
2.6 and gathered. The Lizard looked for its drummer, he
who was the scorpion.
Hyena
2.7 took the Hare. And they came and stood facing each
other. The Hare started
to hit
2.8 its drum. [Drum noise: Fansai hidon ... etc.]
2.9 It heard thus and came back. He said "Drummer speak.
I have not heard
yet."
2.10 And it began again. [Drum noise ..... etc.]
2.11 It jumped and somersaulted. Fraitim, frait .... etc.
2.12 This Fraitim, it was the mortar, it was the pants that it
had attached
3.1 at the waist. Now what it caused to jump now, when it
hit, the mortar
3.2 would turn over. Now it made the noise "fraitim ...
etc."
3.3 Now Lizard also had his drummer. He was the scorpion.
He also began to
3.4 hit his, "Bren ga gung gong, Bren the first to throw
down. etc."
3.5 Now it tightened its stomach as it danced the wrestler's
dance. It
tightened its stomach and threw
3.6 and shook its tail a lot.
3.7 Now, they prepared and they came out to face each other
in the circle.
3.8 Hyena backed way up so as run and crush the lizard
3.9 just where it came out. It lifted to pass now
by way of the head.
3.10 The Lizard wound around with its tail so it lifted up carrying
it well
over the hip.
3.11 It went and threw down there, TIM! And it said, "Hu he,
you surprised me,
3.12 you surprised me, you surprised me. Let's return. Wait,
wait, wait. Thus
let's return,
3.13 again, again." And they began again. He said, "Drummer,
speak.
4.1 Perhaps if you hit the drum sweetly, I'll be able to
throw him down." He
also
4.2 is thrown. What is it doing? The thing which
you know lies on the ground.
I am going
4.3 to stamp and crush it from here to there. The skin
of the elbow which he
looks for.
4.4 He will see how I am going to work on him."
4.5 The drum started sounding again. "Fansay hidon ..etc."
4.6 And it somersaulted again, "Fraitim ... etc." And it
backed up.
4.7 The Lizard was there. It never went any place. Right
there. "Bren ga gung
gong....etc."
4.8 And they returned and faced each other. And it jumped
to crush him
4.9 just as it had wanted to. The Lizard showed its side
for a long time
4.10 It raised up between the legs and it wound it around and
again it lifted
well up across its knee and
4.11 again it threw down there, TIM! And it said, "Ha, ha! Hare,
this here
5.1 I don't think I understand this." He said to him, "Ha, there
5.2 have courage and we'll see what we'll do about it."
Ha! Hyena, how he was
very surprised.
5.3 The fat he had eaten, but it would tire him. Now he said,
5.4 "Backup way far back, and when I run thus just only
the dust touches
5.5 the Lizard and he'll fall." Ha. This backing up therefore
was to have a
means
5.6 to run. Hare is there pleasing with the drum, with
everything. He backed
up.
5.7 Again he called back, "Master Hare, is here far enough
back?" He said,
"No,
5.8 not enough yet." He pushed further. "Master Hare, here
far enough?" He
said to him "enough,
5.9 enough, come here quickly." He said, "No, here, I think.
Wait,
5.10 I'll backup further." He backed up. Now the people
knew that
5.11 we was passing out of there. He said, "Yes, you take what
we've eaten. You
two wrestle." Puuf!
5.12 He Ran, he went, he went away [actually: To run, to go,
to continue away.]
5.13 The Lizard said to Hare, "You and I, we have nothing. You
go.
5.14 It's he I see. I will follow and reach him there."
6.1 And it went to look and find it.
6.2 Thus, he went and arrived saying to Asekaren, "The
debt you and I took,
6.3 I'm very tired of it. But we'll fix up a way to get
out of
6.4 the house and go and we'll enter down a dried up well.
That way, perhaps
it will be better."
6.5 And they went and climbed down. Now, hunger which we
know now is not a
thing
6.6 we can console. And it caught them. "Asekaren," he
said, "pound." She
began pounding.
6.7 He said, "don't be heard." How is a person going to
pound with a pestle
and never be
heard?
6.8 Thus it was heard. The Lizard followed to where it
knew about inside.
6.9 It was quiet and listened and heard whispers. It looked
for stones. It
threw them
6.10 in. When the stone went to hit the head of the baby,
BAW, (it started)
6.11 to cry. "Asekaren, Calm (it), calm etc. " It mustn't cry.
6.12 Now Asekaren calmed it. It again went to throw where it
heard the word
6.13 of Hyena. When it knew, it threw there. The stone again
hit the head
6.14 of it. PAW. "M'm'm'm'm, old man, don't cry, don't cry, don't
cry."
7.1 Now, "don't cry" there, it again threw a bigger (stone) there.
"Ha, ha", it
said
7.2 to Asekaren, " what to do?" She said to him, "Ha, you know
it!" He said,
7.3 "Forgive, let's wait and I'll come out and we'll go
back and we'll
wrestle. Inside here
7.4 is too much for me. I said to hide, but you found me."
It began
7.5 To come up the foot holes. Near the mouth of the well
the Lizard hit the
hands, they
broke. It fell back in, it died in there.
7.6 My story, my story, PEKES.