inalingan were their son and daughter, so they asked them. They
said that Ibago wa Agimlang met them when he came from war and he
took them to his party so they knew that they were their son and
daughter for they chewed betel-nut. As soon as Igowan's _Sayang_
was over the _alan_ gave all their valuable things to him, and also
those who had taken Ginalingan. As soon as they had given them all
their things the _alan_ flew away and Dinowagan and her husband took
their sons and daughters to Pindayan.

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There was a man named Asbinan who was the son of Ayo, but the old woman
Alokotan took care of him. "Ala, my grandmother Alokotan, go and engage
me to Dawinisan who looks like the sunshine, for I want to marry her,"
said the young boy Asbinan. The old woman replied, "I do not think they
will like you, for she is a young girl who never goes outdoors." [295]
"Ala, grandmother, you go anyway, and if they do not like me I will
see what I shall do," said Asbinan who was a handsome young man. Not
long after the old woman went. As soon as she arrived at the stairs
of the house of the mother and father of Dawinisan, they said, "Good
morning," and the mother of Dawinisan said, "Good morning, what did
you come here for, Ayo and Alokotan of Kadalayapan?" "'What did you
come here for?' you say. Our son Asbinan wants to marry Dawinisan,"
said Ayo. She called them up into the house and they talked. "We will
ask our daughter and hear what she says." When they asked Dawinisan if
she wished to marry Asbinan, she said, "Oh, my mother, I am ashamed
to marry yet, I do not know how to do anything; so I do not wish to
be married now. Do not dislike me, but be patient with me." So her
mother said, "Pretty Ayo, I think you heard what she said. Be patient."

Not long after Ayo and Alokotan went back to Kadalayapan. When they
arrived there, Asbinan asked them the result of their mission. "Did
they wish me to marry their daughter Dawinisan?" His mother replied,
"They said that Dawin-isan does not wish to be married yet; so we came
back home." When he knew that they did not wish him for a son-in-law,
for they did not give any reason, he thought and he said, "My mother,
hand me my golden cup, for I am going away." So his mother gave it to
him. As soon as he arrived in the yard of Dawinisan, he said, "Good
morning, Dawinisan, will you look out of the window at me?" Dawinisan
said to the _alan_, who had spreading toes and who bent double when
th