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sore back you have, so naked and dry! You
shall have my lard for salve, and I will rub it
on."
Coolnajoo spread the lard over the dry road,
and when it was all gone, he went home.
"Why have yon not brought the lard?" the
brothers asked, when they saw Coolnajoo re
turning empty-handed.
"Oh,
dear me,"
answered Coolnajoo,
"I came
upon a poor old man, lying in the road, with his
back all sore and cracked ;
and I pitied him, and
spread the lard over him."
"Poor old man!"
they said, "we will go and
bring him home. So the brothers started off,
with Coolnajoo, but when they came to the
cracked road and saw what Coolnajoo had done
with the lard, they cried:
"Oh, you stupid, we will never send you any
where again."
At last Coolnajoo suddenly became as clever
as he had been stupid.
One day the two brothers went away and left
him at home to take care of the pigs. While
they were away, he sold the pigs, but he cut off
their tails, and stood them up in the quagmire
so as to deceive his brothers. When his
brothers came home and asked how he had man
aged with the pigs, Coolnajoo said :
"Why, all the pigs broke out of their pen,