The brother 's wife was overjoyed at the sight of the fruit , and when she tasted it , she declared it was the nicest she had ever eaten . Indeed , all night she thought of nothing else , and early in the morning she called another slave -LRB- for she was a rich woman -RRB- and bade him go and ask for another pumpkin . But the girl , who had just been out to look at her tree , told him that they were all eaten , so he went back empty-handed to his mistress . In the evening her husband returned from hunting a long way off , and found his wife in tears . ` What is the matter ? ' asked he . ' I sent a slave with some grain to your sister to buy some pumpkins , but she would not sell me any , and told me there were none , though I know she lets other people buy them . ' ` Well , never mind now -- go to sleep , ' said he , ` and to-morrow I will go and pull up the pumpkin tree , and that will punish her for treating you so badly . ' So before sunrise he got up and set out for his sister 's house , and found her cleaning some corn . ` Why did you refuse to sell my wife a pumpkin yesterday when she wanted one ? ' he asked . ` The old ones are finished , and the new ones are not yet come , ' answered the girl . ` When her slave arrived two days ago , there were only four left ; but I gave him one , and would take no corn for it . ' ' I do not believe you ; you have sold them all to other people . I shall go and cut down the pumpkin , ' cried her brother in a rage . ` If you cut down the pumpkin you shall cut off my hand with it , ' exclaimed the girl , running up to her tree and catching hold of it . But her brother followed , and with one blow cut off the pumpkin and her hand too . Then he went into the house and took away everything he could find , and sold the house to a friend of his who had long wished to have it , and his sister had no home to go to . Meanwhile she had bathed her arm carefully , and bound on it some healing leaves that grew near by , and wrapped a cloth round the leaves , and went to hide in the forest , that her brother might not find her again . For seven days she wandered about , eating only the fruit that hung from the trees above her , and every night she climbed up and tucked herself safely among the creepers which bound together the big branches , so that neither lions nor tigers nor panthers might get at her .
When she woke up on the seventh morning she saw from her perch smoke coming up from a little town on the edge XXXXX the forest .
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