Atondido Stories
"if you will do as I have done." The giant hesitated to do this, but
soon he felt so uncomfortable that he could bear it no longer. He
saw that the boy was feeling quite well. So he took his long knife
and plunged it into his stomach. "Strike hard," said the boy, "or it
will do you no good." The giant plunged the knife into the hilt,
and in an instant he fell dead.
Then the boy took the stones and the bag and the knife
which the Woman of the Mist had given him and went and told
the Chief what he had done. The Chief sent his messengers to
the cave to make sure that the boy spoke the truth. Sure enough,
they found the three giants lying dead. When they told the Chief
what they had seen, he said to the boy, "You may have my
daughter as your wife." But the boy said, "I do not want your
daughter. She is too old and fat. I want only traps to catch fish
and game." So the Chief gave the boy many good traps, and he
went into a far country to hunt game, and there he lived happily
by himself. And his wicked uncle never saw him again. But the
land was troubled no more by giants, because of the boy's great
deeds.
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