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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: “TI 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 carry the earth, but if you fall, you must bear 
up the earth,” 
