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" I should like to stay with you very much, for you seem 

 so kind, and are so different to my brothers, and I should like 

 to marry your daughter and spend the rest of my life here. 

 But there is no one to look after our garden, and the porcu- 

 pine will do much damage to it. And my brothers are sure to 

 be angry with me for leaving them, and when they see their 

 garden destroyed through my neglect, they are sure to hunt 

 for me and when they find me they will probably kill me. No ; 

 much as I would like to stay, I am afraid I cannot. I must 

 start to return to-morrow. It would have been different if I 

 had succeeded in killing the porcupine, then it would not matter 

 so much if I stayed away some time." 



"You need not trouble yourself about the animal that 

 attacks the vegetables planted in your garden. I can prevent 

 its coming again. That porcupine is not really an animal. One 

 of our slaves here, named Indai-Antok-Genok, is commanded by 

 me to transform herself into a procupine and pay visits to that 

 garden. I shall tell her to do so no more, and your brothers' 

 garden will be safe enough without you to watch it. You must 

 remain here with us. There is nothing for you to fear. If you 

 do not return your brothers will think that some accident has 

 happened to you and that you are dead. As they are all so 

 unkind to you, you may be sure they will not trouble to look 

 for you." 



" Well, if that be the case, I will gladly live with you. I 

 was not happy with my brothers and I am sure I shall be happy 

 here." 



So it was decided that Pulang-Gana should remain in the 

 house of the old man. Some months afterwards he married the 

 daughter and they lived happily as husband and wife. His 

 wife's father and mother were kind to him and so were the other 

 people in the house, said Pulang-Gana was very glad he decided 

 to cast in his lot with them. 



Now this old man who treated Pulang-Gana so kindly was 

 no ordinary mortal. His name was Raja Shua and he ruled 

 the spirits who live in the under-ground caves of the earth. 

 His wife was quite as powerful as he. She was a goddess and 



R. A. Soc, No. 45, 1905. 



