84 Children of Yayoute

his way. But when he got there, everybody was dancing
with such vigor that he dropped the stick; and with a broad
grin himself joined the dancing. The dance heated his blood
so that he forgot he had a bad foot.
 Malice in the meantime slipped away. While his dance
was in full swing he carried every bit of the bocor's food
away.
 A few days after the dance, somebody said, -I saw the
bocor walking with crutches, for he had lost his foot. That's
because he failed to feed his dead.-
 -If he didn't despise Malice so much and try to revenge
himself on him, this wouldn't have happened to him.,
 -Malice is the last person in whose beard to play,- said
someone.
 ,But yes! the bocor reminds me of the bull who was
so angry with the pasture, that he tried to foul it on pur-
pose but only to dirty his own backside!,