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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:
"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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