But the boy heard , and consulted his bones , which said : ` Take the red coverlet from your father 's bed , and put yours on his , ' and so he did . And when the ogre came , he seized Motikatika 's father and carried him outside the hut and ate him . When his wife found out the mistake , she cried bitterly ; but Motikatika said : ` It is only just that he should be eaten , and not I ; for it was he , and not I , who sent you to fetch the water . ' -LSB- Adapted from the Ba-Ronga -LRB- H. Junod -RRB- . -RSB- Niels And The Giants On one of the great moors over in Jutland , where trees wo n't grow because the soil is so sandy and the wind so strong , there once lived a man and his wife , who had a little house and some sheep , and two sons who helped them to herd them . The elder of the two was called Rasmus , and the younger Niels . Rasmus was quite content to look after sheep , as his father had done before him , but Niels had a fancy to be a hunter , and was not happy till he got hold of a gun and learned to shoot . It was only an old muzzle-loading flint-lock after all , but Niels thought it a great prize , and went about shooting at everything he could see . So much did he practice that in the long run he became a wonderful shot , and was heard of even where he had never been seen . Some people said there was very little in him beyond this , but that was an idea they found reason to change in the course of time . The parents of Rasmus and Niels were good Catholics , and when they were getting old the mother took it into her head that she would like to go to Rome and see the Pope . The others did n't see much use in this , but she had her way in the end : they sold all the sheep , shut up the house , and set out for Rome on foot . Niels took his gun with him . ` What do you want with that ? ' said Rasmus ; ` we have plenty to carry without it . ' But Niels could not be happy without his gun , and took it all the same . It was in the hottest part of summer that they began their journey , so hot that they could not travel at all in the middle of the day , and they were afraid to do it by night lest they might lose their way or fall into the hands of robbers . One day , a little before sunset , they came to an inn which lay at the edge of a forest . ` We had better stay here for the night , ' said Rasmus . ` What an idea ! '
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