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man went to find a girl for him to marry. He found a girl in the other 

 town. He married her and he took her with him to his home. When 

 they got home the man said to his wife, "Let us go to see our rice." 

 They went to see the rice. At midday they went home. The next 

 day the man sent his wife to go to cut the rice. When she got to the 

 rice, she thought to herself that she could not cut it in a month. Said 

 she to herself, "I want to be a bird." She lay down on the floor in a 

 little house that the man had made. She put her hat over her to be 

 her blanket. Then she became a bird which we call kakok now. Her 

 cloth became her feathers. In the morning the man went with some 

 rice for his wife to eat. When he got there, he could not see his wife. 

 He walked and walked, but he did not find her, then he came to the 

 little house. He saw his wife's hat, and he picked it up. The bird 

 flew away, crying ''kakok, kakok." 



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In the first time Ganoway was the man who possessed a dog which -^ 

 caught many deer; and Kabonlyan allowed. The dog pursued the deer 

 which went in a cave in the rock. The dog went in also, and Ganoway 

 followed into the hole in the rock. He walked, always following the dog 

 which was barking, and he felt the shrubs which he touched. The 

 shrubs all had fruit which tinkled when he touched them. Then he 

 broke off those branches which tinkled as he touched them, and Kabonl- 

 yan allowed. He came to the end of the cave in the rock which was at 

 the river Makatbay, and his dog was there, for he had already caught 

 the deer, which was a buck. It was light in the place where he was, at 

 the river Makatbay, and he looked at the shrub which he had broken 

 off in the dark place in the cave. He saw that the shrub was denglay 

 which bore fruit — the choice agate bead, which is good for the Tinguian 

 dress. He was glad. He cut up the deer into pieces and placed it on 

 a bamboo pole which he carried. He thought always of the beads and 

 wished to return to that shrub which he touched. He returned and 

 searched, but was not able to find it, and because he failed he returned 

 to his home in An-nay. There was not one who did not envy him those 

 beads which he brought home, and they asked him to show them the 

 way to the cave. He showed them the hole in the rock where he and 

 his dog had gone in. They took torches and walked, always walked, 

 but at last they were not able to go further, for the rest of the cave was 

 closed. That place is now called Ganoway, for he was the one who 

 secured the beads which grew in the cave of Kabonlyan, which cave 

 the spirit always keeps clean. 1 



1 The cave is situated in the mountains, midway between Patok and Santa Rosa. 



