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Pa' Paudir said, " I am only following what Ma' Andih 

 said : ' Whatever you find eating into the grass, is a buffalo." 



The owner of the rice field then said, " If Ma' Andih said 

 so I will sell. The price of my buffalo is twelve dollars." 



So Pa' Pandir paid what the owner of the buffalo asked and 

 dragged the buffalo away. But the hoe kept jumping about 

 behind him as it was pulled along until at last it caught him on 

 the tendon of Achilles and drew blood. Then Pa' Pandir said, 

 " This is an ill starred buffalo. This tendon of mine is 

 very sore indeed. And look there is blood on the beast's horns 

 too." But he went on dragging it until he reached his own 

 house. When he arrived he fastened it securely to the stem 

 of a betel-nut tree and went upstairs, 



Ma' Andih said, " Pa' Pandir. Where is the buffalo ? '' 



" I have fastened it to the betel-nut tree over there. But 

 don't go too near, for my heel is very sore having been pierced 

 by the brute's horns." 



" I will only look at it from a distance." 



So she went to see it. She looked to the right and to the 

 left but she could see nothing. Then she called out, "Pa' 

 Pandir, Pa' Pandir, where is the buffalo ? Has it got loose '?" 



" It is there. I tied it very securely to the stem of 

 that betel-nut." 



" Am I blind? I can not see any buffalo here." 

 So Pa' Pandir tumbled down from the house to look for 

 the buffalo. When he got there he said, " This is the buffalo 

 that I have bought." And he pointed out the hoe to Ma' 

 Andih. 



Ma' Andih gave a scream, when she saw the hoe, saying, 

 " Accursed Pa' Pandir, cursed Pa' Pandir. May your death 

 be speedy. You call a hoe a buffalo." 



So they got another buffalo, a real one, and then they had 

 the feast . - . . . 



Some four or five days after this when he and Ma' Andih 

 were both out reaping their rice it came on to rain and they 



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