That day, also, the woman said, "Ane! Appa! I cannot go alone."

Then the man scolds her: "Bola, strumpet! During the whole night

thou canst go to steal fowls; why canst thou not go to bring a bundle

of firewood?"

Well then, the woman having said, "It is not so," began to swear

[to it]. Then the man having said, "What are these, Bola?" showed

her the fowl bones. Then the woman's breath was drawn upward [66];

in that very way the woman's life departed.

North-western Province.

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