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name first and IbagO wa Agimlang was next to tell his. After that they 

 laid down their quids and they saw that they were brothers. "Now, 

 my brother, Adolan we will go to Pindayan, for I am going to make a 

 big party, for I just return from fighting," said IbagO wa Agimlang. 

 "Ala, you go first and I will go to see our brother," said Adolan. 



Not long after IbagO wa Agimlang started to go and he lost his way, 

 and he went through the mountain rice clearing of KabangowEyan, 

 who was the Lakay 1 and he walked through many lawed vines which 

 were wide spreading and when anyone cut off a leaf they smiled. As 

 soon as he arrived at the little house of the old man, "Oh, grandfather, 

 tell me the way back home and I will not take your head," said IbagO wa 

 Agimlang to the old man. "Where are you going?" he said. "I am 

 going home to the town of Pindayan, for I am returning from fighting." 

 " Stop while I cook, and you can eat first, and then you can go," said the 

 old man. "No, I do not wish to eat. Tell me the way back home," 

 said IbagO wa Agimlang. So he showed him the way to Pindayan, but 

 missed the way and they went through the middle of the reeds, and the 

 place where the lawed vines grew, and he met the pretty girl who was 

 his sister, who had been hiding between two leaves. "Now, pretty girl, 

 I have found you among the lawed vines, and I am going to take you," 

 said IbagO wa Agimlang. So he took her and he put her inside of his 

 belt. 



Not long after he arrived in Pindayan and he made a big party. 

 Adolan and Iwaginan and IgOwan went to attend the party. Not 

 long after he took Inalingan out of his belt, she was a pretty girl who 

 looked like the newly opened flower of the betel-nut tree. "Where did 

 you get her?" " 'Where did you get her?' you say. I met her in the 

 place where there are many lawed vines, and when you cut their leaves 

 they smile," said IbagO wa Agimlang. 



"Now, brother, we are going to chew betel-nut, and see if we are 

 truly relations," said Dallwagenan (IbagO wa Agimlang), and he called 

 Adolan, IgOwan, and all his brothers and sisters, and his father and 

 mother. He gave them betel-nut to chew, and Dagilagatan and 

 Dinowagan told their names first and Iwaginan was the next, and then 

 Adolan and then IgOwan, but he said that he was the son of the alan, 

 and next was Agimlang and then the pretty girl. She said, "My name 

 is Inaling who is the little girl who never goes out of the lawed vines, 

 which when somebody cuts they smile. After they finished chewing 

 the betel-nut and telling their names, they laid down their quids, and 

 the quids IgOwan and Ginalingan (Inaling) went to the quids of Iwagi- 



1 Head man. 



