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return, I thought she would not come back to me and I was very happy about that. Unfortunately, as I was just climbing the tree down, there I saw that she was coming back and two strong men with big axes in hands were following her. Then I hastily climbed back to the same branch.
Immediately she brought the two men to that tree and pointed me to them and they saw me on top of that tree. They started to cut it as hastily as they could although it had several big buttresses. But when I believed that I would die immediately it fell down or if I did not die, the night woman and her men would tear me into pieces if they could catch me. So this critical moment forced me to remember my mother’s advice. For she had told me to take my three dogs along with me before I had left the village and I blamed myself greatly for it.
Then with perplexity, I stood up right on top of the tree and I hopelessly called with the topmost of my voice: “My dogs! My dogs! My dogs! The Cutter, the Sweeper, the Swallower! Let all of you come to this forest now!” It was like that I was calling my dogs by their names with fear without stopping. I wondered that the dogs were hearing the call and were trying to come to me but unfortunately they were in their room that time and the door of that room was already locked up when my people had wanted to sleep.
After they had struggled and failed to get the way out, then they started to bark loudly and were running to and fro until their noises woke my mother. So she opened the door and they went out. As I was still calling them and they were running to that forest with all their power, those two men had cut the tree to the stage that it was shaking slightly to fall down and that night woman was ready to snatch me whenever it fell. A few minutes later, I lose my hope, because the tree was then preparing to fall down. But as I was still calling my dogs perplexedly, there I saw them running here and there in that forest, they were finding me about and they hardly come to the tree when I incited them to the two men and the night woman.
To my great joy, they were hardly saw me on top of that tree when they rushed against them. The men tried to cut them with their axes but my dogs did not give them chance but they were biting them instead. At last, they escaped with the night immortal woman and my dogs drove them far away before they came back to me and I had come down from that tree then.
Then I left that area with my dogs for another part of the forest. I lay down helplessly till the morning because that immortal woman had beaten me too much, but I was not discouraged at all to continue my journey to the town of the savage people.
In the following morning, I started to roam about in that forest in search for that town. But to my surprise, I found nothing like a town in that forest. When I roamed till about one o’clock midday then I stopped under the shadow of a tree. Having rested for a while, I went further and my dogskilled one animal which I roasted immediately. I ate some of it and I gave the rest to my dogs. Not knowing that there was no real town in that forest for those savage people but their inhabitations were the holes of the rocks which were common to be seen everywhere in that forest. And they were not coming out in the day-time except in the night. So I rested till the night when this revealed to me.
In the following night, I started to roam about with my dogs. After a while, I was seeing them everywhere in the forest and so they were troubling me just to leave there but I did not leave there until when they became entirely annoyed and then they chased me to kill. When I climbed a tree and hid in its leaves they failed to catch me. Having tried all their efforts to trace me out but failed, then they went away. And it was not so long when I fell asleep on that tree while my dogs slept at the bottom. My intention was to continue my journey in the following morning to another part of the world
Immediately she brought the two men to that tree and pointed me to them and they saw me on top of that tree. They started to cut it as hastily as they could although it had several big buttresses. But when I believed that I would die immediately it fell down or if I did not die, the night woman and her men would tear me into pieces if they could catch me. So this critical moment forced me to remember my mother’s advice. For she had told me to take my three dogs along with me before I had left the village and I blamed myself greatly for it.
Then with perplexity, I stood up right on top of the tree and I hopelessly called with the topmost of my voice: “My dogs! My dogs! My dogs! The Cutter, the Sweeper, the Swallower! Let all of you come to this forest now!” It was like that I was calling my dogs by their names with fear without stopping. I wondered that the dogs were hearing the call and were trying to come to me but unfortunately they were in their room that time and the door of that room was already locked up when my people had wanted to sleep.
After they had struggled and failed to get the way out, then they started to bark loudly and were running to and fro until their noises woke my mother. So she opened the door and they went out. As I was still calling them and they were running to that forest with all their power, those two men had cut the tree to the stage that it was shaking slightly to fall down and that night woman was ready to snatch me whenever it fell. A few minutes later, I lose my hope, because the tree was then preparing to fall down. But as I was still calling my dogs perplexedly, there I saw them running here and there in that forest, they were finding me about and they hardly come to the tree when I incited them to the two men and the night woman.
To my great joy, they were hardly saw me on top of that tree when they rushed against them. The men tried to cut them with their axes but my dogs did not give them chance but they were biting them instead. At last, they escaped with the night immortal woman and my dogs drove them far away before they came back to me and I had come down from that tree then.
Then I left that area with my dogs for another part of the forest. I lay down helplessly till the morning because that immortal woman had beaten me too much, but I was not discouraged at all to continue my journey to the town of the savage people.
In the following morning, I started to roam about in that forest in search for that town. But to my surprise, I found nothing like a town in that forest. When I roamed till about one o’clock midday then I stopped under the shadow of a tree. Having rested for a while, I went further and my dogskilled one animal which I roasted immediately. I ate some of it and I gave the rest to my dogs. Not knowing that there was no real town in that forest for those savage people but their inhabitations were the holes of the rocks which were common to be seen everywhere in that forest. And they were not coming out in the day-time except in the night. So I rested till the night when this revealed to me.
In the following night, I started to roam about with my dogs. After a while, I was seeing them everywhere in the forest and so they were troubling me just to leave there but I did not leave there until when they became entirely annoyed and then they chased me to kill. When I climbed a tree and hid in its leaves they failed to catch me. Having tried all their efforts to trace me out but failed, then they went away. And it was not so long when I fell asleep on that tree while my dogs slept at the bottom. My intention was to continue my journey in the following morning to another part of the world
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