She stooped down to drink , when a horrible head bobbed up on the surface . ` How dare you steal my water ? ' cried the head . ` It is my husband who has sent me , ' she replied , trembling all over . ` But do not kill me ! You shall have my baby , if you will only let me go . ' ` How am I to know which is your baby ? ' asked the Ogre . ` Oh , that is easily managed . I will shave both sides of his head , and hang some white beads round his neck . And when you come to the hut you have only to call `` Motikatika ! '' and he will run to meet you , and you can eat him . ' ` Very well , ' said the ogre , ` you can go home . ' And after filling the pot she returned , and told her husband of the dreadful danger she had been in . Now , though his mother did not know it , the baby was a magician and he had heard all that his mother had promised the ogre ; and he laughed to himself as he planned how to outwit her . The next morning she shaved his head on both sides , and hung the white beads round his neck , and said to him : ' I am going to the fields to work , but you must stay at home . Be sure you do not go outside , or some wild beast may eat you . ' ` Very well , ' answered he . As soon as his mother was out of sight , the baby took out some magic bones , and placed them in a row before him . ` 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 XXXXX who wants to eat me ; and you , ' to another , ` are very little , therefore you shall be me .
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