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258 DYAK FOLKLORE
" I think I do," said the Giant.
" Cannot you give me
some medicine ?"
" I have no medicine with me," said the Mouse-Deer,
" but I can bandage you, as I have done myself, and it
is sure to do you good."
" Thank you," said the Giant. "It is good of you to
take the trouble to cure me."
So the Giant lay down as he was bid, while the Mouse-
Deer bandaged his head, and fastened the ends of the
bandage to pegs which he drove in the ground under the
open flooring of the hut.
"
Don't you feel a little pain in your ankles ?" anxiously
suggested the Mouse-Deer.
"
I think I do," said the foolish Giant.
" Suppose you
bandage them, too."
So the Mouse-Deer, chuckling to himself, bandaged
his ankles, and made them fast to the floor of the
hut.
'
Do you not feel the pain in your legs ?" asked the
Mouse-Deer.
"
I think I do," was the foolish Giant's reply.
So the Mouse-Deer bandaged his legs and made
them secure, so that the Giant was quite unable to
move.
By this time the Giant began to feel uneasy, and trying
to get up, and finding himself securely bound, he struggled
and roared in pain and anger.
The little Mouse-Deer sat before him and laughed, and
said :
'
You were a match for the Deer, the Pig, the Bear,
and the Tiger, but you are defeated by me. Don't make
so much noise, or I shall drive a peg through your temples
and kill you."