Tales of the Mythical Period 165 



marry Asbinan, she said, "Oh, my mother, I am ashamed to marry yet, 

 I do not know how to do anything; so I do not wish to be married now. 

 Do not dislike me, but be patient with me." So her mother said, 

 "Pretty Ayo, I think you heard what she said. Be patient." 



Not long after Ayo and Alokotan went back to Kadalayapan. 

 When they arrived there, Asbinan asked them the result of their mission. 

 "Did they wish me to marry their daughter Dawlnlsan?" His mother 

 replied, "They said that Dawlnlsan does not wish to be married yet; 

 so we came back home." When he knew that they did not wish him 

 for a son-in-law, for they did not give any reason, he thought and he 

 said, "My mother, hand me my golden cup, for I am going away." 

 So his mother gave it to him. As soon as he arrived in the yard of 

 Dawlnlsan, he said, "Good morning, Dawlnlsan, will you look out of 

 the window at me?" Dawlnlsan said to the alan, who had spreading 

 toes and who bent double when they walked, 1 "Look out of the window 

 and see who it is." The alan said to her, "He wants you to look at 

 him." Dawlnlsan said, "I cannot go to the window to look at him, 

 for the sunshine is hot. I do not wish the sun to shine in my face." 

 When Asbinan could not get her to go to the window, he used magic 

 and went inside of the golden cup, and he pretended that he was ill in 

 his stomach. He said, "Ana, mother, I am going to die, for my stomach 

 suffers greatly," and he said to the alan, "Ala, you alan, tell her that 

 she must look out of the window to see me." The alan said to Dawlnl- 

 san, "Come and look at him; he wants you to see him. He says that 

 his stomach is ill." But Dawlnlsan said to the alan, "Tell him that I 

 cannot go and look at him, I am ashamed. You look at him and then 

 you rub his stomach." The alan told Asbinan that Dawlnlsan would 

 not look at him, and he would not let the alan rub his stomach. He 

 said, "If Dawlnlsan does not want to look at me from the window, and 

 if I die it is her fault, for I came here because of her." 



The alan who saw that Asbinan was a beautiful young boy, said, 

 " If you will not go to look at him, we are going to leave you, for we fear 

 that he is going to die because of you." Dawlnlsan did not wish the 

 alan to leave her, and she said, "Ala, bring him up on the porch and I 

 will see him." The alan took him up on the porch, and she went to 

 look at him. When she saw that he was a handsome boy, she said, 

 " I am ashamed, for I did not think he was a rich and handsome boy." 

 When she saw that the boy appeared to be suffering greatly she went 

 into the house; she changed her dress and went out on the porch, and 

 she looked like the sunshine. When she reached the porch, she rubbed 



1 See p. 14. 



