Note 8 — Stories of the Pitch-people

Then he looked at her, and he asked her: “Say! noble woman,8 what sort of things have they put into your ears?” And the child said to him: “They drove sharp knots into them and put mountain sheep wool into them.” Then he took sharp knots out of a little box he used as a pillow. Now Narrow-cave laid his head on some planks for her, and she pushed them into his ears. “Wa wa wa wa wa, it hurts too much.” Then she at once stopped. And, when he asked her to do it again, she again had him put his head on the plank. It hurt him, but still she drove it into his ear. His buttocks moved a while, and then he was dead.