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A man once hunted the Rain, as the Rain was grazing
there. The rain was like an eland. He hunted, approaching
the rain and he came and lay down. He shot the rain,
and it sprang to one side. The rain ran away, as he
walked on.
He went to pick up the arrow. He intended to go and
put it back. He picked up his bag, the bag which he
had taken hunting with him. He had put it down. That
was the bag that he picked up. He returned. He lay down
to sleep.
Early next morning he told the people that he had shot
the Rain. And they followed up the Rain. They went to
track its footprints.
They were following them when a mist came up. They continued.
They caught site of the Rain lying down and they went
up to it.
They cut up the Rain. They kept cutting of meat. They
kept putting it to roast, but the meat kept vanishing,
being burnt up in the fire. The fire burnt out; the
fire died down. They went to take out the meat. They
turned over the ashes looking for the meat at the place
where it had been roasting, but it was all burnt up.
Then an old man said, "I thought I would go when
this eland's meat is finished, but I have not eaten
it, even though I roasted it. So now I will go while
its meat sits here."
And another answered, "We will all do so, because
we did not know what sort of eland it was. Let us go
because it's an eland whose meat we do not eat."
As they walked away the Rain shut them in. The Rain's
naval shut them into the hut. And they had to work at
a pond. They worked. They became frogs. They hopped
away while the people of the hut became frogs. He made
a pond; he had been on the hunting-ground; he worked,
making a pond.
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