ssed the way
and they went through the middle of the reeds, and the place where the
_lawed_ vines grew, and he met the pretty girl who was his sister,
who had been hiding between two leaves. "Now, pretty girl, I have
found you among the _lawed_ vines, and I am going to take you," said
Ibago wa Agimlang. So he took her and he put her inside of his belt.
Not long after he arrived in Pindayan and he made a big party. Adolan
and Iwaginan and Igowan went to attend the party. Not long after
he took Inalingan out of his belt, she was a pretty girl who looked
like the newly opened flower of the betel-nut tree. "Where did you
get her?" "'Where did you get her?' you say. I met her in the place
where there are many _lawed_ vines, and when you cut their leaves
they smile," said Ibago wa Agimlang.
"Now, brother, we are going to chew betel-nut, and see if we are
truly relations," said Daliwagenan (Ibago wa Agimlang), and he called
Adolan, Igowan, and all his brothers and sisters, and his father and
mother. He gave them betel-nut to chew, and Dagilagatan and Dinowagan
told their names first and Iwaginan was the next, and then Adolan
and then Igowan, but he said that he was the son of the _alan_,
and next was Agimlang and then the pretty girl. She said, "My name
is Inaling who is the little girl who never goes out of the _lawed_
vines, which when somebody cuts they smile." After they finished
chewing the betel-nut and telling their names, they laid down their
quids, and the quids Igowan and Ginalingan (Inaling) went to the
quids of Iwaginan and Adolan. "Oh, my son, Igowan and my daughter
Ginalingan, I thought that I did not have any more my daughter and
son and that the _alan_ had taken. We did not feed you rice," said
the old woman Dinowagan. "Ala, my son, Agimlang, do not feel sorry,
because you heard what your father Dagilagatan said to you, because
you met your brothers and sister who are Igowan and Ginalingan,"
said the old woman Dinowagan. After that they danced for about nine
months. After that Igowan and Adolan and Iwaginan went home and they
did not let Ginalingan go back home.
As soon as Igowan arrived in his town he built _balaua_ and he invited
all his relatives who lived in different towns and all the _alan_
in the world. Not long after the people whom he invited arrived in
the town of Igowan, and all the _alan_ went to his _Sayang_, and the
_alan_ were surprised that Dagilagatan and Dinowagan knew that Igowan
and G
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