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see my sister, who is Imbangonan, whom you shall take for wife, who 

 cannot belt herself unless there are nine belts. She is in the middle of 

 the place of the betel-nuts." 



''Good morning, Imbangonan," said Tolagan. "I came to see you, 

 for your brother told me we are to marry if you like me." 



"If you like me, we will chew green betel-nut and see what is your 

 fortune." When they finished chewing, the two quids went into a line. 

 "Ala! we will marry if you agree to pay 100 gumtang and 50 ginaltnan." l 



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There were two girls who went to take a walk and a rich man met 

 them, and he asked, "Where are you going, you two girls?" "We are 

 going to walk around the town." The rich man said, "Come and walk 

 with me." When they reached their house he gave them some work 

 to do and he treated them just the same as his daughters. The rich 

 man was a king, and he put the girls in a room and the princesses Mary 

 and Bintolada were in the other room. The king and the queen gave 

 dresses to the girls but they did not give them any bracelets and rings. 



Not long after the two girls went to the house of the jeweler and 

 they ordered him to make rings and bracelets for them like those the 

 princesses had. As soon as they went in the house of Indayo and 

 Iwaginan in the town of Pindayan, they asked for water to drink. 

 After that Iwaginan and Indayo gave them water to drink, and they 

 thought that the two girls, who were dressed like men, were ladies, so 

 they followed them when they left and they took basi for them to drink. 



As soon as the princesses arrived in the jeweler's house they com- 

 manded him to make rings and bracelets for them. As soon as the 

 jeweler began to make the rings and bracelets for them Iwaginan 

 and Indayo arrived with the basi. Soon it became night and they 

 ate and drank in the night and they became drunk, and they all slept 

 in one room. The people saw the beads on their arms and the jeweler 

 awakened them and put them in another room so they did not sleep in 

 the same room with the others and he said, " I thought you were princes, 

 for you dress like princes, but when I saw your beads I woke up, for I 

 think those two men are planning bad for you. Go and sleep in the 

 other room." So they went into the other room to sleep. 



Not long after it became daylight and they returned home, and 

 Iwaginan and Indayo did not see them, and they were very sorry for 

 they thought the princes were truly girls. So they went back home, 

 and as soon as they arrived there they said, "We are going to make 

 balaua, to find out if those princes were truly girls." So they began 



1 Jars. 



