how to get home, for there was a very high bank in the way, so I came across the ocean to learn the other way back home.  While I was still on the ocean I saw this big golden house.  I came here, for I was very tired, for it is more than one month since I left Kabilabilan.”  “Ala, you Alama-an go and cook some food for this young man,” said the old woman, and Alama-an went truly, and when she finished cooking, the old woman called him to eat.  The young man said he did not wish to eat unless one of the ladies who never went outdoors [193] ate with him.  “Alama-an is the girl who never goes outdoors,” said the old woman, but he did not believe her, and so he did not go.  When he would not eat she called Sinogyaman to go and eat, but the young man said, “I do not wish to eat with anyone except the pretty girl who never goes outdoors.”  So the old woman called Indiapan.  As soon as she went outdoors to the place where the young man was, “No, that is not the girl I want.  There is one prettier still.  I will not go to eat.”  The old woman became angry and said, “If you are not hungry and do not wish to eat that is all right.  I have offered three young girls to eat with you, but if you do not wish to eat with them I do not care.”  When the old woman and the three girls had eaten they gave him a place to sleep, and they slept also.

While the others were talking to the young man, Aponibolinayen was looking through a crack of the house, and she liked him very much.  She wished to go outdoors and talk to him, but she was afraid because the old woman had said there were only the three young girls whom she called.  As soon as they had finished talking, they went to bed.

In the middle of the night Ingiwan said to himself, “I believe there are other young girls here prettier than the last one she showed me.  I will use my power and will become a firefly, and I will fly to all parts of the house, and see if there is a prettier one there.”  So he used his power and he became a firefly and he flew. [194] When he was in the room where the old woman was, he left, and went where Alama-an was, and he went on to Sinogyaman.  When he did not like her he went to Indiapan.  “This is the last girl she showed me and I like her, but I believe that there is another prettier.”  So he went to the next room, but no one slept there, and so he went on to the ninth room.  He heard the sound of the pan pipe in the ninth room, and he was very glad.  He flew over the head of the woman who was playing, and she stopped playing and struck at him.  “How did the firefly get in here?  I do not think there are any cracks in here.”  The firefly said, “Do not strike at me, for I fear you will hit my headaxe and be cut.”  So he became a man and sat down beside her, and Aponibolinayen saw that it was the man who had talked with the old woman and the girls, and she loved him, but she said, “Go outdoors, do not come here.  I am afraid that the old woman who cares for us will see us.