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to get her head, but she asked his pardon and she went to cure Aponl- 

 bolinayen. As soon as she made Aponlbolinayen drink of her medicine, 

 she was at once alive again. Not long after Gimbagonan went back to 

 her house, and when she went back Iwaginan said to her, "Do not do 

 that." "You are not good, Iwaginan. I do not know why you di- 

 vorced me," she said. 



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"Tikgl, tikgi, Ligi, if you want us to cut rice for you, we will come 

 to work with you," said the tikgi birds, "Because we like to cut your 

 rice amasi, which is mixed with alom&ski in the place of Domayasl." 

 Ligi said to them, "What are you going to do? I do not think you can 

 cut rice, for you are birds and only know how to fly, you tikgi." But 

 they still asked until he let them cut his rice. "Ala, Ligi, even if we are 

 tikgi we know how to cut rice." "If you want to come and cut, you 

 must come again, because the rice is not yet ripe. When you think it 

 is ripe, you come," he said. "If that is what you say Ligi that we shall 

 come when the rice is ripe, we will go home and come again," said the 

 tikgi. Not long after they went home. 



As soon as the birds went Ligi fell sick; he wanted always to see them, 

 and he had a headache, so he went home to Kadalayapan. The tikgi 

 used magic so that Llgl's rice was ripe in a few days. 



Five days later, Ligi went back to his rice field and the tikgi went 

 also, and they arrived at the same time. "Tikgi, tikgi, Ligi, Ala, now 

 we have come to cut your rice amasi which is mixed with alomdski in 

 the place of Domayasl," said the tikgi. "Come, tikgi, if you know how 

 to cut rice," said Ligi. Not long after the tikgi went. "We use magic 

 so that you cut the rice. You rice cutters, you cut alone the rice. 

 And you tying bands, you tie alone the rice which the rice cutters cut," 

 said the tikgi. So the rice cutters and bands worked alone and Ligi 

 went home when he had shown them where to cut rice. He advised 

 the tikgi to cut rice until afternoon, and they said, "Yes, Ligi, when it is 

 afternoon you truly come back." "Yes," said Ligi. 



When it became afternoon Ligi went. As soon as he arrived at the 

 field the rice which they had cut was gathered — five hundred bundles. 

 "Now, Ligi, come and see the rice which we have cut, for we want to 

 go back home," said the tikgi. Ligi was surprised. "What did you 

 do, you tikgi? You have nearly finished cutting my rice alomdski in 

 the place of Domayasl," he said. " 'What did you do', you say, and we 

 cut it with our rice cutters." "Now you tikgi, I am ashamed to separate 

 the payment for each of you. You take all you want," said Ligi, so the 

 tikgi took truly one head of rice for each one. "Now, Ligi, we have 



