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will also still be laying. So my fowls will become many in 

 number. Then I will sell them all. After that I will buy 

 ducks. And rice too for their food. In time they will hatch 

 ducklings. Again after a time those young ducks in their turn 

 will hatch other ducklings, and the old ones will still be laying. 

 So I will have a lot of ducks. They will go upstream and they 

 will go downstream all quacking, 'kaka.' Then people will 

 say, ' Whose ducks are those ? ' and others will answer, 

 1 Those are Mat Janin's ' and in response the others will say, 

 1 Mat Janin seems to be rich.' 



Then I will sell the whole of my ducks and will buy two 

 she-goats and one he goat. In time they will have kids, and 

 those kids when they grow will get other kids, and the others 

 mil not be sterile. So that in time I will have many goats 

 and they will wander up stream and down stream, people will 

 say, ' Whose goats are these ? ' and others will answer, ' Those 

 are Mat Janin's goats.' 



Then I will sell all those goats and I will buy a buffalo 

 bull and a buffalo cow. In time they will get calves and those 

 calves will after a time get other calves of their own and the 

 mother will still go on bearing. So I will get a lot of buffaloes. 

 They will wander up stream and down stream and they will 

 low ' wa wa ' up stream and ' wa wa ' down stream. People 

 will say, ' Whose buffaloes are those ? ' And others will answer, 

 ' Those are Mat Janin's.' And the others will reply, 'Verily 

 this Mat Janin seems to be indeed rich.' 



After that I will sell all my buffaloes and I will buy a 

 bull elephant and a cow elephant. In time they will breed 

 and after a farther time their children too will breed and the 

 old mother will go on breeding. So that I will have a lot of 

 elephants. 



Then I will sell all those elephants and get a lot of money. 

 After that I will buy a ship complete with her cargo. Then I 

 will go to some other country and there I will marry the 

 daughter of the king of that country, who is very beautiful. I 

 will be very happy there and I will play with my wife and 

 fondle her. At daybreak I will go to the royal hall to play 



Jour. Straits Branch, 



