The Ogre and the beautiful woman


The hunters left with their camels. Arriving in the land of hunting, they released their mounts to let them hunt until sunset and then returned to their camps.
One day, one of them was walking when he saw the tracks of an ogre, each three steps long, and he began to follow them. He walked and walked and walked some more.
Hee found the place where the ogre had deposited his droppings, as big as a pile of barley. The hunter returned and returned to his companions.
“I found the trace of an ogre,” he said, “let’s go join him.”
— No, they replied, we will not go and join him, because we are not stronger than him.
—Give me fourteen days, said the hunter, and if I have not returned on the fourteenth day, take my camel with the game. »
The next day he left and once again began to follow the ogre's tracks.
He had been walking for four days when he discovered a cave which he entered. Inside was a beautiful woman who said to him, “Who brings you here where you are going to be eaten by the ogre?”
— But you, replied the hunter, what is your story and how did the ogre bring you to this cave?
“It was three days ago today,” she replied, “that he took me away. I stayed in the cave; he often brought me food; I stayed there and he didn't kill me.
— Where does he usually enter, asked the hunter, when he comes back here.
“That’s his way,” she replied.
The man loaded his rifle and waited.
At sunset, the ogre arrived. The hunter armed the battery, and fired, hitting the ogre between the eyes as he sat down.
Approaching him, he saw that he had brought two men to cook and eat them.
He spent the night with the woman in the cave. The next day they spent the day extracting the hidden money, took what they could, and set off.
On the fourteenth day, they arrived at the place where the hunter had asked his companions to wait for him.
— “Leave the meat of the hunt,” he said to them, “and come; let's return to the cave. »
Once arrived, they began to remove weapons and clothing, loaded everything onto their camels, and left to return to their villages.
Arrived halfway, the jealous companions wanted to take the woman away from the hunter. An argument ensued; they fought on the road, and the gunpowder spoke between them.
Our man killed four of them and continued his journey alone with the woman until they arrived in his village where they got married.
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