` Nonsense , ' replied Koane , ` there is so much milk in Koumongoe that he will never miss a little . If you wo n't give it to me , I sha 'n' t take the cattle out . They will just have to stay all day in the hut , and you know that they will starve . ' And he turned from her in a rage , and sat down in the corner . After a while Thakane said to him : ` It is getting hot , had you better drive out the cattle now ? ' But Koane only answered sulkily : ' I told you I am not going to drive them out at all . 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 XXXXX the fields below .
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