One day, though, Netaro suddenly got out of bed. "I'm going up to the mountains," he told his parents. "I'll be back."

Later that day he came home with a large eagle. No one could imagine where or how he had caught the bird. "Don't let him escape," Netaro warned. He put the eagle in a cage.

"Now I'm going into town," he told his parents. "I'll be back."

He returned that evening with a lantern he had bought in town. "Hey, Netaro, what have you been up to?" his parents asked him.

But sure enough, Netaro only said one thing: "Mmm." He went right to sleep.