If I have to do without milk , they shall do without grass . ' Thakane did not know what to do . She was afraid to disobey her parents , who would most likely beat her , yet the beasts would be sure to suffer if they were kept in , and she would perhaps be beaten for that too . So at last she took an axe and a tiny earthen bowl , she cut a very small hole in the side of Koumongoe , and out gushed enough milk to fill the bowl . ` Here is the milk you wanted , ' said she , going up to Koane , who was still sulking in his corner . ` What is the use of that ? ' grumbled Koane ; ` why , there is not enough to drown a fly . Go and get me three times as much ! ' Trembling with fright , Thakane returned to the tree , and struck it a sharp blow with the axe . In an instant there poured forth such a stream of milk that it ran like a river into the hut . ` Koane ! Koane ! ' cried she , ` come and help me to plug up the hole . There will be no milk left for our father and mother . ' But Koane could not stop it any more than Thakane , and soon the milk was flowing through the hut downhill towards their parents in the fields below . The man saw a white stream a long way off , and guessed what had happened . ` Wife , wife , ' he called loudly to the woman , who was working at a little distance : ` Do you see Koumongoe running fast down the hill ? That is some mischief of the children 's , I am sure . I must go home and find out what is the matter . ' And they both threw down their hoes and hurried to the side of Koumongoe .
Kneeling on the grass , the man and his wife made a cup XXXXX their hands and drank the milk from it .
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