She was still standing in the same place when a baboon went by . ` What are you doing there , panther ? ' ' I am listening to my children singing . It is here that the jackal keeps his school . ' Then the baboon seized a stick , and poked it in the cleft of the rock , exclaiming , ` Well , then , I should like to see your children ! ' The bees flew out in a huge swarm , and made furiously for the panther , whom they attacked on all sides , while the baboon soon climbed up out of the way , crying , as he perched himself on the branch of a tree , ' I wish you joy of your children ! ' while from afar the jackal 's voice was heard exclaiming : ` Sting , her well ! do n't let her go ! ' The panther galloped away as if she was mad , and flung herself into the nearest lake , but every time she raised her head , the bees stung her afresh so at last the poor beast was drowned altogether . The Little Hare Contes populaires des Bassoutos . Recueillis et traduits par E. Jacottet . Paris : Leroux , Editeur . A long , long way off , in a land where water is very scarce , there lived a man and his wife and several children . One day the wife said to her husband , ' I am pining to have the liver of a nyamatsane for my dinner . If you love me as much as you say you do , you will go out and hunt for a nyamatsane , and will kill it and get its liver . If not , I shall know that your love is not worth having . ' ` Bake some bread , ' was all her husband answered , ` then take the crust and put it in this little bag . ' The wife did as she was told , and when she had finished she said to her husband , ` The bag is all ready and quite full . ' ` Very well , ' said he , ` and now good-bye ; I am going after the nyamatsane . ' But the nyamatsane was not so easy to find as the woman had hoped .
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