When the alan got home, she saw the baby dead in the water.  Then she went to find the men.  They had climbed a high tree which stood near the water, and when the alan looked in the water, she saw them in it.  She put her hand in the water and tried to get them, but could not; then she looked up and saw them again.  “How did you get up there?” she asked.  “We climbed up feet first.”  Then the alan seized a vine and started up the tree feet first.  When she had almost reached them, they cut the vine and the alan fell to the ground and was dead.  The men came down from the tree and went to the house of the alan.  When they got there, they saw three jars:  the first was full of dung; the second, of beads; the third, of gold.  They took the jars with the beads and gold and went home.

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The earth, which is very flat, was made by the great spirit Kadaklan.  He also made the sun and moon, which chase each other over and under the earth.  Sometimes the moon almost catches the sun, but it always gets tired and gives up before it succeeds.  The sun and moon are the lights of Kadaklan and so are the stones which are stars.  The dog of Kadaklan is the lightning.

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Kaboniyan once sent a flood which covered all the land.  There was no place for the fire to go, so it went into the bamboo, the stones, and the iron.  Now that is why you can get fire out of the bamboo and stones.

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A man planted rice in the high land.  When it was grown, he saw that something was eating it, though he had a fence around it.  One night he went to watch his field.  About midnight he heard many wings and saw some big animals with wings alight in his rice.  He ran and caught one, and cut off its wings.  The animal was pregnant and soon had a young one.  Since then there have been horses on the earth, but people have never seen any more fly.  You can see the place on the horse’s legs where the wings used to be.

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A lazy man was planting corn in the high land.  He would plant a few seeds and then put his planting stick in the ground and lean back on it.  After a while the stick grew there and was a tail, and the man became a monkey. [371]

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A very lazy boy got a piece of sugar-cane and went home with it.  When he got home, he told his mother to take off the outside of the stalk so he might eat it.  His mother was angry to see him so lazy and told him that if he could not take it off himself, to stick it up his anus.  He did so and became a monkey.

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A very lazy girl would not learn to spin, and always pretended that she did not know how.  One day she took the cotton and asked the women what to do with it.  “Beat it out,” they said.  Then she asked, “What shall I do with it then?” “Put it in a betel leaf on a stick and spin it.”  Again she asked, “How shall I spin it?” “If you do not know how to spin, put the stick up your anus.”  She did so, and became a monkey.  After that there were many monkeys.