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Then the Buso gave Tuglay a basket of bananas, and let him go away. Now, while her husband was away, the woman gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. And when the man got home he was pleased, and said, "Oh! that's fine! You got some babies while I was away."

In Malilla it is believed that after death the spirit of the right side goes to a good place, while the one on the left remains to wander about on earth as a buso, but this latter belief does not seem to be shared by the people of other districts. See p. 107.

At last, one only of the buso stood up, and he was the great Datu of Buso. But even he fell down before that mighty boy, for none could conquer the boy. He was matulus. After all was done, the boy married the Black Lady, and lived well in her house. Adventures of the Tuglay The Tuglay lived in a fine house the walls of which were all mirrored glass, and the roof was hung with brass chains.

And the bird chirped to the man, "Where are you going?" The man answered, "I am looking for bamboo to put the monkey in." But the karirik-bird exclaimed, "Run away, quick! for by and by the monkey will become a buso. I will wait here, and be cutting the laya; then, when the monkey calls you, I will answer him." In the mean time the monkey had become a great buso.

But, when they tried to comb his hair, they found it swarming with big lice and worms. "Well, let's go on now," said the Buso. Then he stuffed the children into his deep burden-basket, and swung the basket upon his back. On the instant the little girl screamed out, "Wait a minute, Buso! I've dropped my comb. Let me down to pick it up."

That made her fur stand up on end, so that the Buso kept losing count, and never knew where he left off. And while the Buso was still trying to count the cat's hairs, daylight came. This is one reason why we must not kill the cat. If a Bagobo should kill a cat, it would make him very sick. He would get skinny, and die.

So she hid her comb in a place on the floor, and she said to her comb, "If the Buso calls me, do you answer. Tell him that I have run away because I have great fear of the Buso." Then, when the Buso called, the Comb answered just as the woman had told it. By and by the Buso went away. In the morning, the man came back from fishing, because daylight had come. And he had a fine catch of fish.

One night the Buso came into the house, and said to the cat, "I should like to eat your mistress." "I will let you do it," replied the cat; "but first you must count all the hairs of my coat." So the Buso began to count. But while he was counting, the cat kept wriggling her tail, and sticking up her back.

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:

As he was carried through the groves of cocoanut-palms on Buso's place, all the Cocoanuts called out, "Tuglay, Tuglay, in a little while the Buso will eat you!" Into the presence of the great chief of all the buso, they dragged Tuglay. The Datto Buso was fearful to look at. From his head grew one great horn of pure ivory, and flames of fire were blazing from the horn.

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