ey singed the pig,
and the _alan_ cut it up with her nails. Then she gave the liver to
the man, and told him to take it to her house and feed the baby. The
man went, but on the way he ate the liver. When he got to the house,
he saw a big caldron with hot water on the fire. He took the _alan's_
baby and put it in the hot water and then went back. "Did the baby eat
well?" asked the _alan_. "Very well," he answered. Then the _alan_
put most of the meat in her basket and started home. The man told
his companion what he had done and they were both very much afraid;
so they ran to hide.

When the _alan_ got home, she saw the baby dead in the water. Then
she went to find the men. They had climbed a high tree which stood
near the water, and when the _alan_ looked in the water, she saw
them in it. She put her hand in the water and tried to get them,
but could not; then she looked up and saw them again. "How did you
get up there?" she asked. "We climbed up feet first." Then the _alan_
seized a vine and started up the tree feet first. When she had almost
reached them, they cut the vine and the _alan_ fell to the ground
and was dead. The men came down from the tree and went to the house
of the _alan_. When they got there, they saw three jars: the first
was full of dung; the second, of beads; the third, of gold. They took
the jars with the beads and gold and went home.

62

The earth, which is very flat, was made by the great spirit
Kadaklan. He also made the sun and moon, which chase each other over
and under the earth. Sometimes the moon almost catches the sun,
but it always gets tired and gives up before it succeeds. The sun
and moon are the lights of Kadaklan and so are the stones which are
stars. The dog of Kadaklan is the lightning.

63

Kaboniyan once sent a flood which covered all the land. There was no
place for the fire to go, so it went into the bamboo, the stones,
and the iron. Now that is why you can get fire out of the bamboo
and stones.

64

A man planted rice in the high land. When it was grown, he saw that
something was eating it, though he had a fence around it. One night
he went to watch his field. About midnight he heard many wings and saw
some big animals with wings alight in his rice. He ran and caught one,
and cut off its wings. The animal was pregnant and soon had a young
one. Since then there have been horses on the earth, but people have
never seen any more fly. You can see the place