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Then Ta-ywa ripped open the eagles, and took out the bones he 

 found in them. The bones of men he placed in one pile, the bones of 

 women in another, and the bones of the girl's father and mother in a 

 third. Elephant bones, he placed by themselves ; horses' bones, be 

 placed by themselves ; oxen's bones, he placed by themselves ; buffa- 

 loes' bones, he placed by themselves ; hogs' bones, he placed by them- 

 selves ; dogs' bones, he placed by themselves ; fowls' bones he placed 

 by themselves. All kinds of animals, he placed their bones in separ- 

 ate piles. 



This done, Ta-ywa made a strap, sucb as is used in holding a Karen 

 basket borne on the back, on the head, and with it he struck the fowls' 

 bones, when the fowls rose to life, and flew crowing away. In like 

 manner, he struck the bones of each animal, and the animals came to 

 life again. Last of all, he struck the bones of man, and the men cams 

 to life again. Then Ta-ywa said : " What has happened to you ? " 

 And they replied : " We have been asleep." 



Ta-ywa planted two herbaceous plants, and left Long-legs in charge 

 of tlic place, saying, If the plants wither, follow on quickly after me, 

 and then departed. 



II'-] >asscd on and came to another empty house, where the hall was 



full of spiritous liquor. Here the same scenes were enacted as before, 



pting that the girl was found in a spirit jar, and the destroyers 



were tigers. Before leaving, he planted the herbaceous plants, as 



before, and left Long-arms in charge. 



in he continued his travels, and met with another house with- 

 out inhabitant, but he found rice spread out on the verandah to dry, 

 and a number of pots of spiritous liquor. He sought a bamboo tube 

 with winch to suck it up, and having found one, he notched it at the 

 bottom and drank. Here he found a handsome girl as before, and 

 learned that three large Pythons had produced the desolation. 



He dug a gallery under ground with seven bends, and put her at 

 the end. Then he made two swords, and killed two of the serpents as 

 before ; but when he struck the third, the blade of the sword flew out 

 01 the handle, and Ta-ywa ran into the handle which the snake 

 swallowed. 



Emmediately, the plants left behind withered, and Long-legs, and 

 Long-arms followed on to the assistance of Ta-ywa. Long-logs went 



