74 Children of Yayoute

 tStop! Don't burn the man. I pardon him, because firstly
he is honest, or he wouldn't have confessed his crime; se-
condly he is brave, because he was ready to take his punish-
ment without any protest. For his honesty, give him a steer
and a heifer and three male and three female sheep so he
can raise his own lambs.,
 Now Malice did not at all expect this to happen. He
began to annoy Bouqui about giving him half of what the
king gave him. The king, who heard Malice, ordered the
guards to give him a good whipping with a cocomacaque
for molesting honest Bouqui.
 Bouqui who felt that Malice was responsible for his
troubles went away laughing as he said, eSometime the
cocomacaque changes hand.,
 Malice went home well whipped, and was lucky that
the king did not find out that it was he who had stolen
the lamb and with his tricks tried to make Bouqui suffer
the consequences.