nàng-pinkhàt-lo: "Ai ètmarli! kitun apòrlo, there-admonished-them: "O my dears! cooking-time it is,

kedàng apòrlo, e-vo chibèng apòr, e-phàk serving-up-time it is, our fowls to house time it is, our pigs

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chibèng apòrlo: e-pi e-tàmpo, e-po e-tàmpo, to house time it is: our mother us will scold, our father us will scold,

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dàm-po-nàng." Ànsi chinglu-tànglo, let us go!" So bathing-they finished,

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chingthi-tànglo: inut akàn washing themselves they finished: one her clothes

nàng-chihijìr-phlum-phlum chi-i-lòk-si ingjar-èt, inut shaking out so as to flap, having put on flew away beautifully, another

akàn chihijir-phlum ingjar-èt, ànsi her clothes having shaken out so as to flap flew away beautifully, and

akibi-si-ke aphi ingjar-èt-jo, chiklo-atur the youngest of all afterwards flew away beautifully moon's-brightness

arni-atur thelalàk. Sining lut-le-tik, lale H. K. sun's brightness just like. The heaven not entered-until, there H. K.

kelàng-dun puke angphun chepekèk-koi. Ànsi stood gazing so that his neck (in) he got a crook altogether. So

sining lutkoi-lo, thèk-dun-de-lo: ànsi hèm the heaven they entered quite, he saw them no more: so home

chevoilo. H. K. aning mathalo "àn akeme, àn akechòk, he returned. H. K. in his mind thought "so beautiful! so lovely!

nàng èn-lòng-le-tik here until I can get one to wife,

nàng-kim-lòng-le-tik here until I can build the wedding bower (subaud, I will not rest);

ningve ne-phi nàng-arju-le-po." Ànsi hèm to-night my granny I will ask again about them." So home

le-ròk àn-cho-dèt jun-dèt H. K. aphi arjulo:-- having arrived rice having eaten having drunk H. K. his granny asked:--

"Mai! phi! la-sòntòt akeme la-sòntòt akechòk "Oh! granny! that-like beautiful, that-like lovely

ne thèk-lòng-le-làng; kopusi ke-èn lòng-po-ma? I saw got never; how to take one to wife shall I attain to?

bidi ne thàn-tha!" Aphi pudèt-- "Ai H. K.! bàng-ke a plan to me explain!" His granny answered-- "O H. K.! those ones

arnàm-aso arni-aso recho-aso kethe-aso god's children sun's children king's children great one's children

kopusi nàngke arlèng-aso-le (are): how should you, who are but a child of man,

ke-èn-lòng-ji-ma?" H. K. pulo-- "kali, phi! èn-lòng succeed in getting one to wife?" H. K. said-- "not so, granny! get one