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tries. While he made holes for the rice, his thirty concubines chopped 

 in the seed. He said : " Ah, the hardest thing is planting. Who is 

 this that comes blowing a bugle ? Let us wrestle." 



Ta-ywa said : " Ah, thy father and mother loved thee, so you can 

 work and prosper ; but my parents did not love me. They said I had 

 grown exceedingly great, so I came away." 



Though Long-legs planted rice with thirty concubines to sow the 

 seed for him, he said : " Ah, it was so with me. Because my legs 

 were long, they did not love me." He therefore prepared a hog of 

 five hand-breadths, five baskets of rice, five bundles of salt, and five 

 rolls of fish ; and when his thirty concubines came weeping after them, 

 he spit on them, and they turned to stone. Then the two went on 

 their way. 



Thus they travelled together, and the same scenes were enacted 

 when they met in turn with Long-arms, Three-toothed, Broad-ears 

 and Hollow-breast. 



Having become six in company, they travelled together till they 

 came to a fork in the Sitang river, made by an island ; and there, they 

 exhausted the water. Long-legs laid his legs across for a dam, Long- 

 arms stuck his arms down perpendicularly for posts, and Broad-ears 

 put his ear down on the interstices. Three-toothed bit up the fish, 

 and Hollow-breast received them into his bosom. 



When they came to divide the fish, Long-legs wished for all he 

 could hold on his legs ; Long-arms for all he could hold in his arms, 

 Three-toothed for what he could take up with his teeth ; Broad-ears 

 for what he could hold on his ear ; and they asked Hollow-breast : 

 " How much do you want ? " He replied : " I want all I can hold in 

 my breast." His associates answered : " All the fish put together will 

 not fill thy bosom. Why do you want so much? " And they quar- 

 relled. 



Then Ta-ywa, Long-legs, and Long-arms went in one direction ; 

 while Three-toothed. Broad-ears, and Hollow-breast went in another. 



Ta-ywa and his associates met with Shie-oo, and they said : " We 

 will cook rice." They went and asked Shie-oo to give them some 

 fire, but he said : " I will not give to you. You must wrestle. If 

 you throw me, I will cany the earth, but if you fall, you must bear 

 up the earth." 



