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myth 34

going over to where he had planted the sticks he examined them. Some of them had fallen down. "I thought so!" said Marumda, and he xxx planted them again. 

91. Then he went back to his sleeping place and passing again the string through his ear-hole he made it fast. Then he went to sleep. He was sound asleep when it jerked. This time he did not sit up. Then he string jerked and pulled him up. 

92. Then he sat up and peered. It was dawn. He thought he could see people moving about. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. It looked like people moving about. Then he said: "Hm! I had better go." He went there.

93. It was little boys playing outside. The little boys saw him: "Somebody over there, coming this way!" they said. 

94. Then the people went out also. "It's an old man!" they cried, "Who can that old man be, limping along, leaning on his cane?". He came, he came to the house, he sat near the entrance.