Only one of his finger-nails was blown away , and fell into an upper chamber where Udea was standing , and stuck under one of the nails of her own fingers . And she sank lifeless to the earth . -LSB- Illustration : UDEA FOUND LIFELESS BY HER SEVEN BROTHERS -RSB- Meanwhile her brothers sat below waiting for her and wondering why she did not come . ` What can have happened to her ! ' exclaimed the eldest brother . ` Perhaps she has fallen into the fire , too . ' So one of the others ran upstairs and found his sister stretched on the floor . ` Udea ! Udea ! ' he cried , but she did not move or reply . Then he saw that she was dead , and rushed down to his brothers in the courtyard and called out , ` Come quickly , our sister is dead ! ' In a moment they were all beside her and knew that it was true , and they made a bier and laid her on it , and placed her across a camel , and said to the camel , ` Take her to her mother , but be careful not to halt by the way , and let no man capture you , and see you kneel down before no man , save him who shall say `` string '' -LSB- 1 -RSB- to you . But to him who says `` string , '' then kneel . ' -LSB- Footnote 1 : ` Riemen . ' -RSB- So the camel started , and when it had accomplished half its journey it met three men , who ran after it in order to catch it ; but they could not . Then they cried ` Stop ! ' but the camel only went the faster . The three men panted behind till one said to the others , ` Wait a minute ! The string of my sandal is broken ! ' The camel caught the word ` string ' and knelt down at once , and the men came up and found a dead girl lying on a bier , with a ring on her finger .
And as one of the young men took hold of her hand XXXXX pull off the ring , he knocked out the man-eater 's finger-nail , which had stuck there , and the maiden sat up and said , ` Let him live who gave me life , and slay him who slew me ! '
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