my Aunt.”  “Good morning also,” said Alokotan.  “My son is with you,” said Dolimaman.  “Yes, your son is with me, because I met him by the river near the well.”  “How much must I pay you, my Aunt, because you found him and he has staid with you,” said Dolimaman to the old woman.  “I do not wish anything, for my reason for taking him was so that I might have someone to inherit my possessions, because I have no child.”  “That is not my mother,” said Kanag to Alokotan, and she replied, “Yes, that is your mother, but your father put you on the river when you were a little boy, and I found you there and I took you, so I might have someone to inherit my things.”  Not long after, “Ala, my Aunt, now we are not going home we will stay here, because my husband Wadagan does not like us.”  So they used magic so that their house in Kadalayapan went to Nagbotobotan, and the people were surprised at the noise made by the house when it went to Nagbotobotan.  They saw that it was a big house all made of gold, and they placed it near to the house of Alokotan.  Not long after Wadagan made balaua, because he could not find his family in their golden house.

Wadagan got out of the balaua and said, “I am going to take a walk and see if I can meet Dolimaman and our house which is made of gold.”  Not long after he went to walk, and he did not meet any of them.  “I am going to go to Nagbotobotan and see if the new raft went there.”  So Wadagan went and not long after, while he was walking, he reached the edge of the town of Nagbotobotan, and he saw the golden house, and he went to it directly, and he said, “Perhaps that was our house, for there was no other to compare with it.”  When he arrived in the yard he said, “Good morning.”  “Good morning also,” said the old woman Alokotan.  “How are you, my Aunt?” She said, “We are well.”  And he asked her if she had seen the little raft pass by and she said, “Yes, it passed by here and I took it.”  So they made him go upstairs and when he got up there he saw Dolimaman and Kanag, and Kanag did not know his father.  “You call me father, for you are my son,” said Wadagan to him.  “No, you are not my father,” said Kanag, “If you do not wish to call me so, then I will go home, and we will leave you here.  Let us go Dolimaman.  If Kanag does not like me it is all right,” said Wadagan.  “I don’t like you, for you sent me away,” said Kanag.  “Go back home, we are going to stay here,” said Dolimaman.  So Wadagan went back home and he went everywhere and Dolimaman, Kanag and Dagolayan staid in Nagbotobotan.

(Told by Madomar of Riang.)

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There was a man Awig and Aponibolinayen, and there was a girl named Linongan.  “Ala, you make Linongan start for she goes to watch the mountain rice.  You cook for her so that she goes to watch and I go to guide her,” said Awig.  “Why do you dislike our daughter Linongan?  Do not make her go to watch for she is a girl.  If she were a boy it would be all right.  You know that a girl is in danger.  That is why you must not put her to watch the field.”  “No you give her cooked rice and cooked meat and make her start, for I am ready to go now,” said Awig.