They borrowed fishtraps and went to collect water

THERE WAS a youth from the sky, andd there was a youth from the earth.  The two of them were arguing over a girl - a girl from the sun.

  "I'll have her," said the Earth youth.

  "No, I will," said the Sky-youth.

  They told her father.  "Oh, if you wish to win her you must go and fetch some water in a fishtrap.  If the water stays in the fishtrap for either one of you, he is the one who can have my daughter," said the father of the Sun-girl.

  So they borrowed fishtraps and went to collect water.  The Earth-youth dipped his trap into the water, but it would not stay in the trap.  Then the Sky-youth had an idea.  He took his fishtrap and looked ofr a kind of eel.  He collected some of the sticky stuff from the eel and spread it over the fishtrap, stopping the holes.

  "Now I have stopped the holes with the eel's sticky stuff," said the Sky-youth.  Then he tried the trap and dipped it into the water.  The water stayed in the trap just as if it were a bamboo dipper.  Then he filled it with water and carried it to the house of the Sun-girl's father, and showed it to him.

  "Oh," he said, "this chap is so clever he can even carry water in a fishtrap and the water stays."  Really, he had been testing them out because he did not want his daughter to marry either one of them.  But the Sky-youth was very clever and fhad collected the sticky stuff from the eel and wound it round the fishtrap so that the water stayed in it.

  Then the Sky-youth talked to the father of the Sun-girl.  The old man could not object.  That was what he had said about his child - whoever could make the water stay in the fishtrap, he was the one who could marry his daughter. 

  Now it is the Sky-youth who has married the Sun-girl.  The Earth-youth has no wife.

"Au" kono nu mambulok nu tana' tu.

"Ikaa, au iak, " kono nu mambulok nu limbowon.

  Balai' nilo ama' natu.  "U" kono nu ama' nilo tu:  "Hili po akaundut oiyon sukubi' pahulu saluir tu ra siang.  Sumansang po siang tu ra saluir hili ia angundut ra anak kutu," kono mu tanganak ra ralaa nu limbowon, ralaa nu orou no.

  Hili ilo nampuar hili ilo nanukub ra saluir tu ra siang.  Sukubi' nu mambulok nu tana' siang nu saluir tu, ikaa sumunsang.  Hili mambulok nu limbowon io nahuyum ra pakuan no.  Io inuoi nangkawo nagibit ra saluir hino, nahuyum ra bususuung.

  Inundut nu mambulok nu limbowon hinggilol nu anu hitu bususuung, luiti' nu mambulok no saluir nano.  "Naa.  Naluitan ku noyo ra hinggilol nu bususuung tu.  Naluput no hua saluir no."  Hili io nanukub nanginam ra saluir tu ra siang tu.  Sumansang kono iak sumukub ra bulu'.

  Hili io nanukub onso-onsoi hili io nangibit ra pahun nu matuo nu ralaa' nu orou tu.  Hili io napakito.  "U" kono, "kapapandai nu ulun hitu anukub ra saluir, sumansang siang no, "kono nu matuo tu.  Panginginam nu matuo hitu halanaangas apasawo ra mambulok hiatu ra anak natu.  Io hino mambulok nu limbowon io napandai ra huang nangundut ra hinggilol nu bususuung namaluit namalampikit ra hili saluir hino hili sian sinumansang.

  Naa.  Hili rahili mambulok hitu nahayam ra matuo tu, ama' nu ralaa nu orou tu.  Kaando' no rahu no ra anaka natu, hili po akasukub ra siang no dra saluir hili io no anaouk kono hua ra lali' nali.

  Raino po huat mambulok nu limbowon iak nanangandu' ra ralaa nu orou hino.  Ondo' po, kaando' no ra mambulok nu tnaa' li.  Ilo iak ruo ansawa raino, mambulok nu limbowon, ralaa nu orou.