So he thought: "It seems now that at last I have encountered ghosts."

Then he went and lay under a fallen tree, which was a great distance

from the fire. They came around him and whistled, "_Hyu! hyu! hyu!_"

"He has gone yonder," said one of the ghosts. Then they came and stood

around the man, just as people do when they hunt rabbits. The man lay

flat beneath the fallen tree, and one ghost came and climbed on the

trunk of that tree. Suddenly the ghost gave the cry that a man does

when he hits an enemy, "_A-he!_" Then the ghost kicked the man in the

back.

Before the ghost could get away, very suddenly the man shot at him and

wounded him in the legs. So the ghost cried as men do in pain, "_Au!

au! au!_" At last he went off, crying as women do, "_Yun! yun! yun!

yun!_"

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