None but a wizard could have passed the forest and won the lap of her who sits in stone forever.' "'Yes, yes! he is a wolf--he is a wizard!' they screamed.

'Kill him! Kill the wolf-wizard before he brings the ghosts upon us!' And they ran towards me with uplifted spears.
"'I am a wolf indeed,' I cried, 'and I am a wizard indeed, and I will bring wolves and ghosts upon you ere all is done.' And I turned and fled so swiftly that soon they were left behind me.

Now as I ran I met a girl; a basket of mealies was on her head, and she bore a dead kid in her hand.

I rushed at her howling like a wolf, and I snatched the mealies from her head and the kid from her hand.

Then I fled on, and coming to the river, I crossed it, and for that night I hid myself in the rocks beyond, eating the mealies and the flesh of the kid.
"On the morrow at dawn I rose and shook the dew from the wolf-hide.