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Awig went to wash his hair in the spring. When he finished washing his hair he went home. When he reached his house he made Ayo louse him. While Ayo was lousing him the milk from her breasts dropped on Awig's legs. “Why, Ayo, does the milk from your breasts drop on my legs?” he asked. He sat up and asked them many times until they brought the baby. When they brought the baby, “We are going home to Natpangan now, because it does not do me any good to try and hide you.” He took them home and soon he made a bamboo bench by the gate of the town where the people passed when they went to the well, and he placed the baby on it. Then they built balaua, for he wanted to see the father of the baby. Not long after he commanded some one to go and get betel-nuts and he oiled them. He sent them to go and invite all the people in the world. When they arrived none of them wanted the baby to recognize them. When the baby did not go to any of them, he sent someone to get a betel-nut to send to Dagdagalīsit whom they had not invited. As soon as the betel-nut arrived at the place where Dagdagalīsit lived “Dagdagalīsit came to Natpangan for Awig makes balaua,” it said. “I cannot go, for I am ashamed, because I have no good clothes,” he said, for his clout was the dried bark of a banana tree. “If you do not come I will grow on your big pig,” it said, and the betel-nut jumped on the back of the big pig, and it began to squeal. When his big pig began squealing loudly, because the tree grew on his back, Dagdagalīsit said, “I come now.” Not long after he went. When he came walking up the trail from the spring the baby saw him, and went to him, and Awig saw him carrying the baby. “I did not think it would happen this way to Aponībolinayen,” he said. Then he sent Aponībolinayen away, and he made her carry the poor house box that they used to put the fish in which Dagdagalīsit caught in the river. “You carry the female pig so that you have something to eat by the river,” said Awig to Page 82Dagdagalīsit. So they went; Aponībolinayen carried the poor box and Awig took her beads and clothes off from her, and he gave her old clothes to use, and so they went.
Not long after they chewed betel-nut and the quid of Langa-an and Pagatipánan and the quids of Dagdagalīsit went together, and the quid of Pagbokásan and Ebang went to the quid of Aponībolinayen and Awig, and Langa-an and Pagatipánan changed the name of Dagdagalīsit to Līgī. “Ala, now mother old alan do not feel sorry, for we take Aponītolau108 to Kadalayapan,” said Langa-an. “Ala, yes, you take them, take all my valuable things. If it were not for me, Aponītolau would not be alive, for you Langa-an had a miscarriage and lost him, when you went to wash your hair, so I picked him up, because I had no one to inherit my possessions. Take all my things, so that Aponītolau and his wife may own them.” Not long after they went home and Awig took all the payment for Aponībolinayen and all the alan flew away. So Awig and Aponītolau went to their towns. Page 84