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When the Black Ant came, he shook himself, and behold, he had a twisted leg, and a hump back, and was as black as the ant. Then he ran to the woman. 'Look, what a figure I am! he said; but she only told him to climb the tree, as she had told Pivi. But Kabo climbed with both hands and feet, and he threw down the nuts, instead of carrying them down, and he put them in the hut.
'It was quite dry inside the shell, and I worked away at the fish with my spear, till he saw reason to open his shell, and out I came. Then the good woman laughed; and Pivi and his two wives lived happy ever afterwards. Bulletin de la Societe d'Anthropologie. The Elf Maiden Once upon a time two young men living in a small village fell in love with the same girl.
She took Pivi into a shed where she kept her fruit, laid him on a bed of mats, and made him as comfortable as she could, and attended to his broken leg without cutting off the flesh round the bone, as these people usually do. 'You will be still, won't you, Pivi? she said. 'If you hear a little noise you will pretend to be dead.
'Now, Pivi, put them in the shed where you lay, and when the sun sets to cool himself in the sea and rise again not so hot in the dawn you must go and take the nuts. All day Pivi played about in the river, as the natives do, throwing fruit and silvery showers of water at each other. When the sun set he went into the hut. But as he drew near he heard sweet voices talking and laughing within.
We shall stay at home, and weep for Pivi! 'Wretched idiots! cried Kabo; 'Pivi was a scoundrel who broke my leg, and knocked me into the river. Then a little cough was heard at the door, and Kabo trembled, for he knew it was the cough of Pivi! 'Ah, dear Pivi! cried Kabo, rushing to the door. 'What joy! I was trying to console your dear wives. Pivi said not one word.
When birds were men, and men were birds, Pivi and Kabo lived in an island far away, called New Caledonia. Pivi was a cheery little bird that chirps at sunset; Kabo was an ugly black fowl that croaks in the darkness. One day Pivi and Kabo thought that they would make slings, and practise slinging, as the people of the island still do.
He waved his hand, and five and twenty of his friends came trooping down the hill. They cut up Kabo into little pieces. Pivi turned round, and there was the good woman of the river. 'Pivi, she said, 'how did you get out of the living tomb into which Kabo sent you? 'I had my spear with me, said Pivi.
Pivi went, and deep in the clear water they saw a monstrous shell-fish, like an oyster, as big as a rock, with the shell wide open. 'We shall catch it, and dry it, and kipper it, said Pivi, 'and give a dinner to all our friends! 'I shall dive for it, and break it off the rock, said Kabo, 'and then you must help me to drag it up into the canoe.
He jumped up quite well again, he ran to the river, he looked into the water and saw that he was changed from a bird into a fine young man! 'Oh, lady, he cried, 'look at me now! I am changed into a man, and so handsome! 'Will you obey me again? said the woman. 'Always; whatever you command I will do it, said Pivi, politely.
There the shell-fish lay and gaped, but Kabo, though he dived in, kept well out of the way of the beast. Up he came, puffing and blowing: 'Oh, Pivi, he cried, 'I cannot move it. Jump in and try yourself! Pivi dived, with his spear, and the shell-fish opened its shell wider yet, and sucked, and Pivi disappeared into its mouth, and the shell shut up with a snap!
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