ABSTRACT
There was once a certain Hunter, he was always hunting; and he had a Son who was also a Hunter. Now, one day, the Son went into the depths of the forest, and there he saw a shed, and said to himself " I am going to see who lives in that shed," so he climbed up into a tree. And when he had climbed up, and was sitting there, suddenly a Woman came out of the shed, and, when she had come out, she got a great jar, and put it on to boil, and, when it began boiling, she brought a sackful of acha [and poured it in], and began stirring, and stirring it. Then she took it off the fire, and beat her body, and suddenly over the whole of her body appeared mouths, and she took the food, and began feeding the mouths, and they ate. Each mouth would say " O Mother, are you not going to give me any?" Soon all the food was finished, even the dregs, and she beat her body again, and her mouths once more became only one. Then she took the jar, and carried it into the shed, and soon afterwards she came out again with a mat, which she spread at the foot of the very tree in which the Boy was, and she lay down.
