294 DERIHAL PKEEJA'AN BERSAWAil Dl MALAKA 



Maka semangat padi itu dibungkus dengau kaiii puteh dan 

 di-ikat dengan tali terap, di-perbuatkan saperti rupa budak kecbil 

 didalam bedong^f maka di-masokkan kadalam V^akul kechil itu: 

 maka ibu beneh itu pula di-masjokkaii kadalam bakul lain, lalu 

 di-asapkan kadua-nya dengan kemenyan, keradian di-susunkanlah 

 kadua bakul itu di-bawahlah pulaiig sampai karumah di-masok- 

 kanlah kadalam kepuk (tempat menyimpau padi). 



10 Di belakan tiga hari (di-kata .orang •' pantang tuai") 

 baharulah buleh di-tuai atau di-potong akan padi yang lain-nya 

 itu, tetapi di-tuai dahulu sakedar sabakul dua sabaja, maka di- 

 jemur, di-kisar^' dan di-kipas^^, lalu di-tumbok di-jadikan beras, 

 maka di-masakkan nasi, lalu di-panggilkan orang di-khandurikan 



11 Satelah itu di-perbuatkanlah tong akan tempat meniban 

 ting^^ padi dan suatu balubur"*" akan tempat menyimpan padi 

 sementara di-sawah itu juga; kemdian di-panggilkan lima anam 

 orang kuli akan menyabit dan membanting padi itu ; adapun waktu- 

 nya berkerja itu deri pukul anam pagi hingga sebelas satengab, 

 saberapa dapat padi yang di-banting-nya itu di-masokkan kadalam 

 balubur itu. 



36 Bedung — Swaddle, to SAvathe. 



sajarak ampat jari lebeli knrang, maka saterek-terek isi pegangan di-dalam 

 nya itvilali sagemal. 



The middle finger and thumb are stretched out not so as to meet but 

 with the tips about four fingers' breadth apart and the amount that can be 

 held betAveen them, packed as^ tightly as possible, is called a gemal. 



37 Kisar — To veer, to turn round. 



38 Kipas—A fan to winnow. 



[Kisar is to winnow. Kisaran is an arrangement of two baskets, of 

 which the lower is fixed while the upper one spins round and winnows the 

 grain so that tlie chaff flies out. Kipas is a winnowing machine with an 

 open mouth, out of which tlie chaff is driven by a fan turned bv a handle. — 

 C.O.B] 



39 MeinhantiiKj — Di-ambil sabitan padi itu sarhekak hesur (di-pertemu- 

 kan kadua hujcmg jari liantu dan kadua ibu jari pun) di-pukulkan ka tepi 

 tong itu sepaya gugor buah padi itu masok kadalam tong, itulah me.mban- 

 tivg padi. 



You take of the rice that has been cut with the sickle (sabit) a large 

 chekak (as much as can be held between the ends of the thumbs and middle 

 fingers of both hands) and beat it against the (inner) edge of the bucket 

 90 that the grain falls into the bucket ; this process is called membanting padi 

 [here rendered by •threshing'J. 



