Note 24 — 1

Those betel-nuts, whom they sent to invite, arrived, those which they sent to invite their relatives. They did not wish to go to make balaua. The betel-nuts who went to invite them said, “If you do not wish to come, I will grow on your knee.” Pagatipánan said, “You grow,” and the betel-nut grew on his knee, and it became high and he was in pain. “Ala! you get off my knee, and you go on my pig,” he said, and the betel-nut went truly on his pig and it squealed. “You get off my pig, and we will come,” he said, and the betel-nut truly got off the pig. “Ala! you who live in the same town, you go and wash your hair and bathe, and wash your clothes so that we can go to make Sayang24 with the stone and Aponībolinayen. Here is a betel-nut covered with gold which they send,” said Pagatipánan. And the people who lived in Page 41the same town washed their hair and bathed, and they went to wash their clothes. Not long after it became afternoon and Pagatipánan used magic so that cake and singed pig appeared which they were to take to those who make Sayang, which they exchanged with those who make Sayang.25 Not long after they arrived at the place of the gathering, and Aponībolinayen and Ini-init went to make alawig,26 and when they had finished, they brought them up to the town. Pagatipánan said, “I did not think that the stone which rolled could change when he came to make balaua with us.”