` You are my father , ' he told one bone , ` and you are my mother . You are the biggest , ' he said to the third , ` so you shall be the ogre who wants to eat me ; and you , ' to another , ` are very little , therefore you shall be me . Now , then , tell me what I am to do . ' ` Collect all the babies in the village the same size as yourself , ' answered the bones ; ` shave the sides of their heads , and hang white beads round their necks , and tell them that when anybody calls `` Motikatika , '' they are to answer to it . And be quick for you have no time to lose . ' Motikatika went out directly , and brought back quite a crowd of babies , and shaved their heads and hung white beads round their little black necks , and just as he had finished , the ground began to shake , and the huge ogre came striding along , crying : ` Motikatika ! Motikatika ! ' ` Here we are ! here we are ! ' answered the babies , all running to meet him . ` It is Motikatika I want , ' said the ogre . ` We are all Motikatika , ' they replied . And the ogre sat down in bewilderment , for he dared not eat the children of people who had done him no wrong , or a heavy punishment would befall him . The children waited for a little , wondering , and then they went away . The ogre remained where he was , till the evening , when the woman returned from the fields . ' I have not seen Motikatika , ' said he . ` But why did you not call him by his name , as I told you ? ' she asked . ' I did , but all the babies in the village seemed to be named Motikatika , ' answered the ogre ; ` you can not think the number who came running to me . ' The woman did not know what to make of it , so , to keep him in a good temper , she entered the hut and prepared a bowl of maize , which she brought him . '
I do not want XXXXX , I want the baby , ' grumbled he ` and I will have him . '
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