Nkerettanyi was still there helpless when from behind him came a car in which there was a grown man he knew well. When Nkerettanyi told him that the boys had warned him not to go straight ahead because he would be going onto very bad road, the man told Nkerettanyi, "From where you are go where I am going. There is good road here where we are. Here only cars usually get stuck."
This man, having finished telling Nkewrettanyi that road was good wanted to get out of his car to push Nkerettanyi's from where it was stuck. He was getting out, when Nkerettanyi said to him, "Elder, do not get out of your car. Let me call these boys who are idlers so that we can push my car and I too can go. Here we be able to go soon as these boys have much strength."
When nkerettanyi told the boys that he wanted them to work, they rejoiced, as they knew that he they were going to get money for pushing two cars in a very short time. The one that was not yet stuck they could push in five minutes and it would be able to go. And its owner was "those who are taking in the house of Waliggo" [some proverb]. Nkerettanyi said to him, "Elder, leave these things to me, I'll straighten them out."
When the boys they started to puh his car, Nkerettanyi said to them "Harder!" And they replied "But you must add to the money you gave us, as it will not cover the pushing of two cars." Nkerettanyi said "How much? "200," they said. Nkerettanyi said, "It's in the pocket/bag." The boys when they knew that they would get four hundred in ten minutes, they put the strength of their youth into it. Having pulled it out of the mud and water, their faces and clothes were plastered with mud. Seizing the moment, Nkerettanyi stomped on the gas and blew out of there and whistled at the boys as they "bakifuuwa bakizza munda" [idiom]
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