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night and he ran very fast to the council house, and on the way he threw 

 away his clothes. When they came to the place where the spirit had 

 stood, they found a deep hole there like a carabao wallow. 



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Dalioya died; they put her in the ground under the house. After 

 a while Baluga's rice was ripe and was ready to cut. Baluga went to 

 cut it. He went home before dark from his field. Dalioya came out 

 from the ground. She went to cut the rice for him. The next morning 

 he went to cut the rice again. He saw the rice had been cut, but he 

 did not know who cut it. He went home again before dark and went to 

 cut the rice again the next morning. He saw again the rice cut by 

 Dalioya, but he did not yet know who cut it. He said to himself, " I 

 must wait for the person who comes to cut my rice." After dark his 

 wife came, and Baluga lay down very still; when Dalioya walked near 

 him, he waked up and caught her. Dalioya said, " Let me go." Baluga 

 said, "No, I will not let you go." She said, "If you come with me to 

 get my life, I will be very glad." "Yes," said he. Then they went 

 down in the ground where is the spirit's home. When they got there 

 the spirits were sleeping. Dalioya said, "Take that green bamboo cup, 

 because they put my life in it. Baluga took it and they went up on the 

 ground. One spirit waked up and said, "There are Baluga and his 

 wife walking in our vine way." All the spirits ran to catch them. 

 When the spirits were going up in the vine, Baluga cut the vine with his 

 bolo. The spirits fell down. Baluga and his wife went home. As 

 soon as they reached their home, they made a party. There were many 

 people there on that big day. They were drinking bast, eating rice and 

 meat, and singing and dancing because they were having a good time. 

 That party lasted two days. After that the people went home. Baluga 

 and Dalioya went to cut their rice. 



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The alan 2 once found the afterbirth outside the town and made it 

 a real baby whose name was Sayen. 



Sayen lived in BEnbEn. He was very brave and often went to 

 fight without companions. 



He wanted to marry Danipan who lives in Kadalayapan, but she 

 did not wish. She hid; so Sayen married her servant, thinking she was 

 Danipan. The name of the servant was LaEy. Sayen took her home. 



1 See p. 28, note 2. 

 * See p. 14. 



