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Now the Raja complained because the head was rotting 

 and polluting the river, and ordered all his followers, from the 

 mouth of the river to its source, to come together and remove 

 the dragon's head ; and they came together. 



Meanwhile Budak Yoid Intoie and his companions went on 

 their way until they came to a house, the owner of which was 

 an old man named Tak Tempait Bungah (Grandfather Pat- 

 terned Jar). 



Tak Tempait Bungah asked them whence they came and 

 they replied "from the neighbouring country." Then they 

 climbed up into the house, which was situated up-stream from 

 the Raja's palace, and there they stayed. 



Now the Raja had given it out that whoever could remove 

 the dragon's head should marry his daughter, who was shut 

 in an upper room, and enclosed by a seven-fold fence of ivorv ; 

 but nobody could do it, for the dragon's head was as big as a 

 mountain. 



One night Budak Yoid Intoie asked Tak Tempait Bungah 

 what was the trouble from which the Raja wished to be set free, 

 and Tak Tempait Bungah told him how the dragon's head had 

 stranded at the Raja's bathing-place. 



Some nights afterwards a follower of the Raja's came to 

 the house, and Budak Yoid Intoie said in his hearing, " Why, 

 if I only pushed the dragon's head with my finger, I could 

 remove it. " 



When the Raja's follower got home, he told the Raja that 

 he had met four men at Tak Tempait Bungah's house, one of 

 whom said that he could remove the dragon's head with a finger. 

 So the Raja ordered the four men to be called, and when the 

 messenger told Budak Yoid Intoie the Raja's order, he said, 

 " How can we go to the Raja's palace in these clothes, which 

 are all covered witli mud ? " 



The messenger returned to the Raja and told him what 

 Budak Yoid Intoie had said ; and he thereupon sent clothes 

 and everything necessary to Budak Yoid Intoie. 



So Budak Yoid Intoie set out, leaving his companions 

 behind him, and, when he arrived at the palace, the Raja 

 gave him food and betel-nut. 



When he had fed, the Raja asked him from where he 

 came, and he replied that he came from the country across the 

 sea, and asked why he had been sent for. Thereupon the Raja 

 told Budak Yoid Intoie how he had heard that he (Budak 

 Yoid Intoie) could remove the dragon's head with one finger, 

 and promised him, that, if he could do so, he should have 

 his daughter in marriage. 



Now Budak Yoid Intoie went alone to the river to see the 

 dragon's head, and gave it a slight push, which sent it Moating 



