morning,” he answered.  “The reason I came is because a young boy who became a big snake is here.  Will you please put him in your magic well which changes everything which goes in it and make him a young boy again?” “If he will go into the water, even if it feels bad, you call him and let him go in.”  So they went and when they arrived at the well the serpent went into the water, and the serpent’s skin began to crack and fall off and he became a boy again.

Not long after they went back to the house of Langa-ayan.  As soon as they arrived there the boy went to the balaua and did not follow Langa-ayan to the house.  Do-ansowan saw that he was a handsome young boy.  As soon as Langa-ayan had finished cooking they called him to come and eat and he said to them, “I do not wish to eat if there are no girls to eat with me.”  “We are afraid if you do not eat, for you did not eat for a long time, while you were a serpent.”  The boy said, “Even though I did not eat while I was a serpent I will follow my custom, for I do not eat unless a pretty young girl who never goes outdoors eats with me.”  When they could not persuade him Do-ansowan said to his wife, “Go and call our daughter Amau.”  Not long after she went to call her.  When she arrived where they had put her she said, “Come and eat with the rich young man.”  “How can I go?  I do not know how to walk.”  “Take the big gold basket and hold on to it while you walk.”  Not long after she arrived where the food was, and Langa-ayan and Do-ansowan said to the boy who was still in the balaua, “Come and eat now, nephew, with our daughter who never goes outdoors.”  So the boy went quickly, and when he reached the place where the girl was, they ate.  When they had finished eating he said that he was sick, but he was not.  So they went to fix a place for him to lie and he said, “Perhaps I am sick because of the spirit of the young girl.”  So they went to call their daughter, for Kanag wanted her to touch him, and he wanted to see her.  The girl went to touch his body and he was all right, for he wished her to touch him, and he said, “Now, my uncle and aunt, if you wish me for a son-in-law I wish to marry Amau.  I will not go any further to find a wife.”  The father and mother of the girl agreed to what Kanag said, for the girl wanted to marry him, so they were married.

“Now, Kanag, we are going to make Sayang and invite your mother and father so that they can see that you are a young man again,” said his father-in-law and mother-in-law.  They made Sayang and they sent someone to invite their relatives, and someone went to Asimbayan of Ilang and told her that Kanag Kabagbagowan, who lived in Kalaskigan, and his wife Amau were making Sayang.  Some of the betel-nuts which they sent arrived in Kadalayapan where Aponitolau and Aponibolinayen lived and they said, “Good morning,” to Aponitolau who was lying down in the balaua.  He felt badly because Kanag was a serpent and he said to the