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which you wish to eat." Aponibolinayen said to him, "Put it in the 

 rattan hanger." Llgl went back to the balaua, and Aponibolinayen 

 used magic so that Llgl slept. While he was asleep she went to the 

 kitchen to throw away the livers of the deer, and the dogs went to eat 

 and made such a great disturbance that Llgl awoke and asked Aponi- 

 bolinayen what was the matter. "One small piece of liver which I did 

 not eat." She went again to the room and laid down, and Llgl used 

 magic and became an ant, and he went to the crack of the floor, for he 

 wanted to know what Aponibolinayen was saying, for he suspected that 

 she was not telling him the truth. As soon as he arrived in the crack 

 Aponibolinayen repeated her wish to eat the bolnay fruit of Matawltawen, 

 and Llgl became a man again and appeared to her. "Why did you not 

 tell the truth, Aponibolinayen?" he said and she answered, "I did not, 

 because Matawltawen is very far and I am afraid that you will be lost." 

 "No, give me a sack," he said to her. So he went and he used magic 

 so that he arrived at the tree at once. 



Not long after he arrived truly at the place and he secured the fruit 

 and put it in the sack. As soon as the sack was filled he took some of 

 the fruit to hold in his other hand and he went. Not long after he 

 reached the spring in Kadalayapan and his sweethearts were at the 

 spring. "Llgl, how many and how pretty the bolnay fruit are. Your 

 sack is filled and you have some in your hands. Will you give us some 

 of it to eat?" So Llgl gave them all the fruit in the sack and all he 

 held in his hand. "Do not give everything to Aponibolinayen, but 

 give to us also." So he gave them all he had. "The baby inside of 

 Aponibolinayen, which desires the bolnay, is not your child, but is the 

 child of MaObagan," said his sweethearts, and when they had eaten all 

 of the fruit Llgl went home with nothing but the sack. He gave the 

 sack to Aponibolinayen. As soon as she received it she looked to see 

 what was inside and she found one little piece of the fruit which the 

 women had overlooked, and she ate it. As soon as she ate it: "I am 

 anxious to eat more if there are more. My headache is gone." "What 

 is that?" said Llgl, angrily. "You get ready for I will put you in the 

 place where the tree is if you want more." Aponibolinayen said to him, 

 "Because I said that I wanted more you want to put me by the tree." 

 Llgl was angry and he seized her by the arm and dragged her to the 

 tree. As soon as they arrived at the bolnay tree, he dug a hole about 

 neck deep and he put her in it. As soon as he put her in the hole he 

 went back home. 



Soon Aponibolinayen was ready to give birth. "What can I do?" 

 she said to the spirit Ayo. Ayo said, " The best thing for us to do is to 

 prick your little finger." Not long after the little baby popped out of 



