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to go with you, for you will not go with me where I wish to go." " Please 

 come with me and another time I will go with you," said Kanag. 



Not long after they went and they met the doldoli 1 in the way. 

 "Where are you going, rich young men?" it said to them. "Where are 

 you going,' you say, and we are going to get the perfume of Baliwan, for 

 though we are far from it still we can smell it now." "Ala, young men, 

 you cannot go there, for when anyone goes there, only his name goes 

 back to his town." But the boys replied, "We are going anyway. 

 That is the reason we are already far from home, and it is the thing the 

 pretty girl wants." "If you say that you are going anyway, you will 

 repent when you reach there." "It is the thing which will make the 

 girls love us." So they left the jar and walked on. When they reached 

 the middle of the jungle they met a big frog, and it said, "Where are 

 you going, young men?" "'Where are we going,' you say, and we are 

 going to get the perfume of Baliwan, for that is what Asimbayan of 

 Hang desires." "No, do not go there, for everyone who has gone there 

 has died." "We will go on anyway, for we are already far from our 

 town and we cannot return without the perfume." So they left the frog 

 and walked on. Not long after they approached the place where the 

 perfume was, and while they were still a long way off they could smell 

 its odor. "What a fine odor it has. That is why the young girl who 

 never goes outdoors desires it so much." They walked on and in a 

 short time they reached the place below the perfume. When they 

 were there Dagolayan said to Kanag, "Take some from the lower 

 branches." "No, it is better for me to climb and get some from the 

 top, for I think they are better above than below." So Kanag climbed 

 and as soon as he broke off the stem which held the perfume his legs 

 became like part of a snake. Dagolayan looked up and he saw that 

 the legs of his companion had changed to part of a snake. He said, 

 "Now, my Cousin Kanag, I am going to leave you, for you are no longer 

 a man, but you are a serpent." " Do not leave me even if I do become 

 a serpent. I will not injure you. Do not be afraid." In a short time 

 all his body had become a real serpent, and Dagolayan ran and went 

 home, and the big serpent followed him. 



Not long after Dagolayan arrived in Kadalayapan, and Aponl- 

 tolau and Aponibolinayan asked where Kanag was. "Kanag has 

 become a big serpent. As soon as he broke off the perfume of Baliwan 

 which the young girl desired he became a serpent." Aponitolau and 

 Aponlbolinayen went around the town and told the people that they 

 must accompany them, for they were going to see if Kanag had really 



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