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"Go and take this child up and bring it here. It is 

 good luck," he said. "It is my child too." It was brought 

 up to the room and washed and laid to the wife's breast, 

 but the child would not suckle. Mae said: "It is best 

 to give him a name now. Perhaps he will suckle then." 

 He then asked the child if it wanted to be called Non- 

 jang Dahonghavon, and the child did not. Neither did 

 it want Anyang Mokathimman, nor Samoling, nor Samo- 

 lang. It struck him that perhaps he might like to be 

 called Sapit (leg) Tehotong which means "Porcupine 

 Leg," and the child began to suckle at once. The child 

 of the woman was given a name two months later, Lakin 

 Kudyang. 



For two years the mother suckled the two, and then 

 they were old enough to play behind the houses of the 

 kampong. They saw many birds about, and they asked 

 their father to give each of them a sumpitan. When 

 they went out hunting the human boy got one bird, but 

 the other boy got two. Next time the woman's son killed 

 a plandok (mouse-deer), but the other one secured a 

 pig. Their father was angry over this and said to " Por- 

 cupine Leg": "Go and kill the two old bears and bring 

 the young ones here." He had recently seen two bears, 

 with one cub each, under the roots of a tree in the neigh- 

 bourhood. The boy went, and the bears attacked him 

 and tried to bite him, but with his parang he killed both 

 of them, and brought the cubs along to the kampong, 

 bringing besides the two dead bears. The father again 

 sent him out, this time to a cave where he knew there 

 were a pair of tiger-cats and one cub. "Go and kill the 



