“Wherever you go I shall find you and have my revenge.”
Then the woman stopped and threw another bag at the skull, and it had to
stop and clean itself.
The third time it caught up to her, and she threw another bag of grease
at it. But the fourth time the woman went on till she came to a woods,
but the skull could not reach the woods until the next morning for it
had to cross a creek, and so it went back on the side of the hill and
had to roll down and so cross the creek. The woman found an old man in
the forest making bows and arrows, and she asked him to protect her from
the skull, but he paid no attention.
“Brother, help me! Protect me!” But he took no notice of her.
“Uncle, protect me!” He paid no attention.
“Father, protect me from the skull!” He did not notice.
“Grandfather,” she called, “Help me! Protect me!”
“That is the relationship,” he said. He was an immense man, and his long
hair was done up in a big knot on the back of his head. He told her to
untie it and get in there, so she did so. And he told her to sit there
and wait until he was ready. After a while he went on making bows and
arrows.
Presently the skull came up and went round and round the old man,
saying:—
“Old man give me my woman.”