inghoi-lo: "Làng-nòn, chainòng a-òk do," pu-- "ne did: "See-now, cow's flesh there is," saying-- "I

nàng pu-lo-he!" Ànsi bamòn po-- "Bàng-kaprèk-atum told you so!" Then the big brahman-- "people other (plur.)

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vàng-thèk-dun-te, ne-jàt virdèt-ji" pu, phere-si come-see-together-if, my-caste will be destroyed" saying, fearing

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jàngreso-aphàn pulo: "Jàngreso, po-arnàm-po! pàk-tà thàn-ri-nòn! dohòn the orphan-to said: "Orphan, my good sir! any one do not tell! money

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màntung-isi nàng pi-po"-- pusi dohòn màntung-isi pilo. Ànsi a cloth-full-one you I will give," saying money a cloth-full gave. Then

jàngreso labàngso adohòn pòn-si hèm che-voi-lo. Hèm the orphan that money taking with him home returned. House

che-le-lo, ànsi a-pei che-pu-lo: "ne-òng-atum a-tòn his he arrived, and his mother (to) said: "my uncles' basket

hàng-dàm-tha." Ànsi a-pei dàm-si hàng-dàm-lo: "Ik-mar-li! nàngli go-ask-for." So his mother going asked for it: "Brothers! your

osá kipu, 'tòn tàngho.'" Ànsi tòn nàng-lo-lo. Ànsi nephew says, 'a basket I want'" So a basket they sent. Then

hèm-epi a-ik-mar-atum tòn pisi the widow's brothers the basket having given

che-pu-lo-- "Tòn pi kànghoi-i-ji-ne? said among themselves-- "The basket what is to do with?

làng-dun-tòn-tha-- pusi akibi-abàng toi-dun-lo; ànsi la go and peep (imper.)-- saying their youngest one they sent and he

nàng-làng-dun-tòn-lo, ànke hotòn-pèn dohòn ketèng there went and watched, and the basket-with money measuring

nàng-thèk-dun-lo. Ànsi nàng-kelàng-dun-tòn-abàng hèm there he saw. Then there-the-one-who-had-watched-person house

che-voi-si, a-ik-mar thàn-dàm-lo-- "La e-osá his having returned to, his brothers informed-- "That our-nephew

konàt-tòng kelòng-dàm-lo-ne? hotòn-pèn dohòn ketèng wherever get-did he (all this money)? with a basket money measure

chinàm sai-se." Ànsi dohòn tèng-tàng-dèt jàngreso really he has to." So the money measuring-finished-having the orphans

a-pei-ta tòn thòn-dàm-lo, ànke achèkle-mar nàng-pu-dun-lo mother the basket returned, and her brothers there said to her

"Osá nàng-toi-tha." Ànsi hèm-epi hèm nàng-che-le-si "Nephew here send." So the widow home having arrived

asopo-aphàn che-pulo-- "Nàng òng-atum kipu 'Vàng-tha-tu tàngho her son to said-- "Your uncles say 'Come here, we want you,