19, 2 Scheerer: 
6. Mawakas ot um6oi chit 
amana mantangad manum- 
phis; nagngoi nat akit-ta iphil 
chit anakna. Namingsana 
chingngoina. Nampatli_ chit 
amana tai achina naka-aya sit 
anakna. Chakk6i-ya phyaphya- 
winan chit kaisan tai adsana 
na-ila chit anakna. 
7. Maphitil man chit aphit 
maid mangai-A4nas kanona tai 
maid apoi ya maid phinayu. 
Maphitil mana-tinai, nangan 
sichat inayan chit phyantig-ka 
ugsa onno phoyok. 
8. Makaduan phiyan ot 
chummakkéi chit aphit ot 
chummachakk6éi pai chat up- 
phin chit phyanig. Oyég man 
chat upphiin tumaud chinom- 
chom chit aphit on man-ayan. 
9. Ot osan phigphikat man 
kaisan chit inan chat upphi. 
Postona chit ikin chat upphi 
ot ilayugna chicha. Ot inam- 
ammaam chit aphit-ta niphia- 
nat sit pita. Ichayana chat 
chian upphi sit phophdéyoi. 
5. untichon object of following. 
Texts from Balbalasang-Gindang 
187 
6. The following day the fa- 
ther went to look up again; he 
believed to hear some little cry- 
ing of his child. He heard it 
only once. The father went 
back for he could not take his 
child. Great was his sorrow 
on going away for he had not 
found his child. 
7. The child was hungry, but 
there was no getting any food 
because there was no fire and 
no rice. Being very hungry it 
ate from the prey of the eagle 
which was deer or pig. 
8. After two months had 
passed the child had grown big- 
ger and also the young of the 
eagle had grown up. As the 
young eagles were able to fly 
the child thought of going 
away. 
9. Then, one morning, the 
mother of the young eagles 
flew away. The child tied the 
legs of the young to use these 
for descending to the ground. 
And slowly the child sank down 
to the earth. It took along the 
two young eagles in going back 
to the village. 
michaténg, possibly from *maichatong. 
maid mdoi not passable. 
chuchéngyon, probably a progressive form of * chongdyon obj. of lis- 
tening. 
pasikén object of thinking; past pinasig. 
kinan, past of kanén object of eating. 
6. wméi one going; we would expect the past wmméi, but this tense appears 
to be far from being regularly employed. 
manumphis: our adverb “again” appears as a verbal form auxiliary 
to mantangad. 
nagngoi a form said to denote one who believed to hear. 
7. inayan what was taken (by the eagle). 2 
8. oyég seems to express the idea of enough, sufficient. 
