` 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 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 XXXXX a little , wondering , and then they went away .
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