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6. Mawakas ot umoi chit 
amana mantangad raanum- 
phus; nagngoi nat akit-ta iphil 
chit anakna. Namingsana 
chingngoina. Nampauli chit 
amana tai achina naka-aya sit 
anakna. Chakkoi-ya phyaphya- 
winan chit kaisan tai adsana 
na-ila chit anakna. 
7. Maphitil man chit aphit 
maid mangai-anas kanona tai 
maid apoi ya maid phinayu. 
Maphitil mana-unai, nangan 
sichat inayan chit phyanug-ka 
ugsa onno phoyok. 
8. Makaduan phuyan ot 
chummakkoi chit aphit ot 
chummachakkoi pai chat up- 
phun chit phyanug. Oyog man 
chat upphun tumaud chinom- 
chom chit aphit on man-ayan. 
6. The following day the fa- 
ther went to look up again; he 
believed to hear some little cry- 
ing of his child. He heard it 
only once. The father went 
back for he could not take his 
child. Great was his sorrow 
on going away for he had not 
found his child. 
7. The child was hungry, but 
there was no getting any food 
because there was no fire and 
no rice. Being very hungry it 
ate from the prey of the eagle 
which was deer or pig. 
8. After two months had 
passed the child had grown big- 
ger and also the young of the 
eagle had grown up. As the 
young eagles were able to fly 
the child thought of going 
9. Ot osan phigphikat man 
kaisan chit inan chat upphu. 
Postona chit ikin chat upphu 
ot ilayugna chicha. Ot inam- 
ammaam chit aphit-ta niphia- 
nat sit pita. Ichayana chat 
chuan upphu sit phophoyoi. 
away. 
9. Then, one morning, the 
mother of the young eagles 
flew away. The child tied the 
legs of the young to use these 
for descending to the ground. 
And slowly the child sank down 
to the earth. It took along the 
two young eagles in going back 
to the village. 
5. unuchon object of following. 
michatong, possibly from *maichatong. 
maid mdoi not passable. 
chuchongyon, probably a progressive form of * chong oy on obj. of lis- 
tening. 
pasikon object of thinking; past pinasig. 
kinan, past of kanon object of eating. 
6. umoi one going; we would expect the past ummoi, but this tense appears 
to be far from being regularly employed. 
manumphus: our adverb “again” appears as a verbal form auxiliary 
to mantangad. 
nagngoi a form said to denote one who believed to hear. 
7. inayan what was taken (by the eagle). 
8. oyog seems to express the idea of enough, sufficient. 
