But He Was
A Great Hunter, And His Liver Grew Hot In Him For The Bush, So He
Dragged Himself To The Bush, And Lay There Every Day.
One day, as
he lay, he saw a big spider making a net on a bush and he watched
him.
By and by he saw how the spider caught his game, and that the
spider was a great hunter, and the man said "If I had hunted as this
spider hunts, if I had made a trap like that and put it in the bush
and then gone aside and let the game get into it and weary itself to
death quickly, - quicker and safer than they do in pit-falls - that
bush cow would not have gored me." And so after a time he tried to
make a net like the spider's, out of bush rope, and he did this
thing and put his net into the forest, and caught bush deer
(gazelles) and earthpig (pangolins) and porcupines, and he made more
nets, and every net he made was better, and he grew well, and became
a greater hunter than before. One day he made a very fine net, and
his wife said "This is a cloth, it is better than our cloth (bark
cloth) because when the rain gets to it, it does not shrivel. Make
me a cloth like this and then I will beat it with the mallet and
wear it." And the man tried to do this thing, but he could not get
it a good shape and he said, "Yet the spider gets a shape in his
cloth. I will go and ask him again this thing." And he went to the
spider, and took him another offering, and said: "Oh, my lord,
teach me more things." And he sat and watched him for many days.
By and by he saw more (his eyes were opened) and he saw the spider
made his net on sticks, and so he went home and got fine bush rope
that he had collected, and taken there, to make his game nets with,
and he brought them to the bush near the spider, and fixing the
strings on to the bush he made a new net and he got shape into it,
and he made more nets this way, and every net he made was better.
And his wife was pleased and gave him sons, and by and by the man
saw that he did not want all the sticks of a bush to make his net
on, only some of them; and so he took these home and put them up in
his house, and made his nets there, and after a time his wife said:
"Why do you make the stuff for me with that bush rope? Why do you
not make it with something finer?" And he went into the bush and
took offerings to the spider and said: "Oh, my lord, teach me more
things!" And he sat and watched the spider, but the spider only
went on making stuff out of his belly.
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