got there, he and Sayen fought face to face and they got tired, because Kaboniyan could not beat Sayen, and Sayen could not beat Kaboniyan.  Sayen said, “I take my headaxe, because I am very tired.”  Kaboniyan said, “Do not take your headaxe; you are a brave man; I will be your friend and we will go to fight anywhere.”  Sayen said, “Yes.”  Then they were friends and went to fight in many towns.  If the people in the town caught them in the way when they went home from fighting, or when they were in the river, Sayen could be a fish and hide.  They fought in one town.  Sayen became a chicken after fighting.  He went under the house where the chickens roost.  He did that many times and the people in the town noticed that Sayen could be a chicken or a fish.  When he came with Kaboniyan to the town to fight the people, he went under the house to the chickens’ place.  The people said to themselves, “We will put a fish trap there, because Sayen after fighting goes in the chicken coop.”  They put a trap under the house by the coop.  Sayen came in the town again to fight.  After fighting he went under the house and he went into the trap, and the people caught and killed him.

This all happened not very long ago.

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In the old times Malilipeng was walking along the trail in the woods when he heard the alan [370] in the trees.  He laid down on his face as if dead and the alan who saw him began to wail, for they thought he was dead.  When they brought gold and beads to place on him, he sprang up and drove them away.  “Give us the one bead which is nagaba, or we will burn your house,” said the alan.  The man refused.  When he reached home his house was burned, but he still had the bead.

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Two men went to hunt wild pig.  They killed one, but had no fire to singe it, so one man climbed a tree to see if he could see where was a fire.  He saw a little fire at a distance and went to get it.  When he got where the fire was, he saw it was in the house of an alan.  He was very much afraid, but he went up and saw the alan, who had a baby, was asleep.  He walked very quietly, but the alan woke up and said, “What do you want?” “I want fire, for we have killed a little wild pig.”  “Do not say little pig, but larger,” said the alan.  “Larger,” said the man, for he was afraid.  “Do not say larger, but big,” said alan. “Big.”  “Do not say big, but very big,” said the alan.  “Very big,” said the man.  Then the alan gave him the fire, and she took her big basket and went with him to where the pig was.  They singed the pig, and the alan cut it up with her nails.  Then she gave the liver to the man, and told him to take it to her house and feed the baby.  The man went, but on the way he ate the liver.  When he got to the house, he saw a big caldron with hot water on the fire.  He took the alan’s baby and put it in the hot water and then went back.  “Did the baby eat well?” asked the alan.  “Very well,” he answered.  Then the alan put most of the meat in her basket and started home.  The man told his companion what he had done and they were both very much afraid; so they ran to hide.