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dancing in the yard and Aponlbalagen shook their hands. "Kagkaga- 

 kag, if you had come as you are now to my balaua I would not have been 

 bad to my sister." Kagkagakag laughed at them and they all chewed 

 betel-nut. 



While they were chewing Langa-an and Pagatipanan went to them 

 and they said, "We came to chew betel-nut also to see if we are related 

 to you." Kagkagakag gave them betel-nut, and when they chewed they 

 found out that they were relatives and they called Kagkagakag, Aponl- 

 tolau, and he paid the marriage price for Aponibolinayen. Aponiga- 

 wanl said to him, " I thought I had no brother. I do not know what my 

 father and mother did with you." The alan who cared for Aponitolau 

 said, " He was by the road where Langa-an had dropped him On her way 

 to Nagbotobotan, so I picked him up, for I have no children." As soon 

 as Aponitolau paid the marriage price they danced again, and the alan 

 gave all her things to Aponitolau, for Langa-an and Pagatipanan took 

 them home. Not long after Aponlbalagen married Aponlgawanl, and 

 he paid the same as Aponitolau had paid for Aponibolinayen. 



(Told by Madomar, a woman of Riang barrio Patok.) 



II 



"I go to visit my cousin Gawigawen of Adasin," said Aponitolau. 

 He pushed his raft until he reached Pangasinan. At the spring he asked 

 the women if his cousin Aponibolinayen was there. "She is not, because 

 she went to celebrate Sayang} Did you not get the invitation of Gawiga- 

 wen of Adasin?" "No," said Aponitolau. 



Aponibolinayen went to have Lisnaya fix her upper arm beads and 

 they sat in the shade of the pamlo-ongen tree, and Aponibolinayen 

 dropped her switch. 



"I wish to visit my relatives, but am ashamed because the invitation 

 did not reach me," said Aponitolau. So he went to rest in the shade of 

 the pamlo-ongen tree, and he saw there the switch which was spread out, 

 and there was none like it. 



The women who had been at the spring said, "Why did you not 

 invite Aponitolau? Whenever we have trouble, it is he and his cousin 

 that we call." 



"Ala, we go down to the river to see." They went to get Aponitolau 

 and when they arrived at the spring he was there in the shade of the tree. 

 "Ala, forgive us because the invitation did not reach you and come up 

 to the Sayang." "Yes, but if the old enemy is there, when I go, the 



1 See p. 12. 



