Those men said, "This snake is standing in the doorway and preventing us
from going out, and he tells us we must give our game to our dogs, and
then eat our dogs, that he may eat us. This is because we came to sit in
here to escape from the rain."
The elephant-nosed shrew said, "Agree to what he says. When that snake
has eaten you and become very fat I will eat him."
When that snake heard those words of the shrew it was very angry, and
chased the shrew, and the shrew ran off into the bush, and the snake
followed him very far, but did not catch him.
Then those hunters were able to come forth from that hole and escape. So
they went out very quickly and ran back to their village.
[Illustration: Hunters]
When the snake came back to his house he found that those men had run
away. It was indeed the elephant-nosed shrew who had saved them.