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At last he caught sight of them far up in the betel-nut tree, and wondered how he could get them. Now, at the foot of the tree there was a growth of the wild plant called "bagkang;" and Buso said words to make the bagkang grow faster and taller: "Tubu, tubu, bagkang, Grow, grow, bagkang, Baba, baba mamaa'n." Handle, handle, betel-nut. But the children, in their turn, said:
See footnote 2, p. 39. The children, for their part, say other magic words to make the tree grow at an equally rapid rate, so that its branches may swing above the bagkang as a handle for it. The Buso's formula appears to have been the more effective of the two charms in producing a magically rapid growth. See footnote 1, p. 18. See footnote 2, p. 30. See footnote 1, p. 30. See footnote, p. 25.
"Tubu, tubu, mamaa'n, Grow, grow, betel-nut, Baba, baba bagkang." Handle, handle, bagkang. By and by, when the bagkang-stems had grown so tall as almost to reach the clusters of betel-nuts at the top of the trunk, the boy and girl said to each other. "Let us pick betel-nuts, and throw them down on the bagkang."
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