THE BABOON PA SI BAGOK AND THE GIRL. 67 



the brim and went away again. But the water leaked again. 

 And so it went on all day till evening. While Pa Si Bagok 

 was away getting the water his wife took her child's cradle 

 which was made of tgrap bark and lengthened it till it reached 

 to the ground. Then she climbed down to the ground and 

 ran away with her child to the villages. At last she reached a 

 house by the edge of a clearing and asked where the house of 

 her parents was. She ran off again as soon as she was told 

 for she was afraid that Pa Si Bagok was behind her. In a 

 little while she reached her home. Her parents were extremely 

 glad to see their daughter with her child, half monkey, half 

 man. Then they thought, " What are we to do ? For 

 she is sure to be followed by this . baboon. We had better 

 make some magic." So they made a very deep hole and placed 

 some banana stems at the bottom. 



He said, " If that baboon comes now, I will tell him that 

 his wife and child have died and that this is their grave." 



At last when Pa Si Bagok was tired out and had not been 

 able to fill the bamboo, and it was nearly nightfall, he thought, 

 " I had better go back and ask my wife what she means." So 

 he returned to the Tok Allang tree. But when he got there he 

 found that his wife and child had disappeared. He was very 

 grieved, but as it was night he could do nothing. He got no 

 sleep all that night. At daybreak he started off in a great hurry. 

 He met a man and asked him about his wife and child. " Hai 

 sir, have you noticed a woman carrying a child pass this way ? " 

 The man replied that he had not. 



To every person that he met he put the same question. 

 At last he reached her parents' house. There he asked her 

 father, " Has your daughter come back bringing her child with 



her ?;; 



" She did : but they have both died." 



" What has happened that both of them have died ? " 



" She travelled too fast. For she was afraid of you. She 

 thought that if you found her you would kill her. So she was 

 quite worn out and both of them have died." 



" If they are dead where is the grave ? " 



" Come and let us go and see it. " 



R. A.Soc, No. 46, 1906. 



