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branches he carries are agate beads. Returns, but fails to find more. 

 His townspeople go with him to seek the wonderful tree, but part of the 

 cave is closed by the spirit Kabonlyan who owns it. 



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The jar Magsawl formerly talked softly, but now is cracked and 

 cannot be understood. In the first times the dogs of some hunters 

 chased the jar and the men followed, thinking it to be a deer. The 

 jar eluded them until a voice from the sky informed the pursuers how 

 it might be caught. The blood of a pig was offered, as the voice directed, 

 and the jar was captured. 



73 



The sun and moon fight. Sun throws sand in moon's face and makes 

 the dark spots which are still visible. 



74 



A man who went with a war party is away so long that he does not 

 recognize his daughter when he returns. He embraces her when she 

 meets him at the town gate. In shame she changes herself into a 

 coconut tree. 



75 



Two flying snakes once guarded the gap in the mountains by which 

 the Abra river reaches the sea. Two brave men attack them with 

 banana trunks. Their wings stick in the banana trees and they are 

 easily killed. The men are rewarded with gold made in the shape of 

 deer and horses. 



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A man named Tagapen, of Ilocos Norte, with his wife and child goes 

 up the Abra river on a raft. They stop at various towns and Tagapen 

 goes up to each while his wife comforts the child. They finally reached 

 Patok where they go to live in the balaua. They remain there teaching 

 the people many songs. 



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 A turtle and a monkey go to plant bananas. The turtle places his 

 in the ground, but the monkey hangs his in a tree. Soon the tree of 

 the turtle has ripe fruit, but the monkey has none. Turtle asks mon- 

 key to climb and secure the fruit. Monkey eats all but one banana, 



