you will break the house and give a bad sign to the boy and girl who
are to be married." [155]

Aponibolinayen covered her face all of the time and she sat down
in the middle of the house, for Indiápan said that she must not
uncover her face for her husband Gawigawen had three noses, and
she was afraid to look at him. [156] But Gawigawen was a handsome
man. Aponibolinayen believed what Indiápan had told her. Not long
after Dinawágan spread the string of agate beads along the floor where
Aponibolinayen sat. [157] After a month they were still there and
the people from the other towns wished to go home, and Aponibalagen
said to Aponibolinayen, "Ala, be good to your husband and uncover
your face. We are going back home now." But Aponibolinayen would not
uncover her face. Not long after all the people went back to their
towns and Aponibolinayen's mother-in-law commanded her to go and
cook. She did not uncover her face, but always felt when she went
about, and when she had cooked, she refused to eat, but Gawigawen
and his father and mother ate. When Gawigawen went to Aponibolinayen
at night she changed to oil, and she did that every night, and they
put the carabao hides under her mat so the oil would not drop to the
ground. On the fifth night she used magic so that they could not see
her go out and she dropped her beads under the house and then she
became oil and dropped her body. So she went away and always walked
and Gawigawen looked for her, for a long time. He went to Natpangan
for he could not find her in any of the towns.

When Aponibolinayen was in the middle of the jungle she met a wild
rooster which was crowing. "Where are you going Aponibolinayen?" it
said to her. "Why are you walking in the middle of the jungle?" and
Aponibolinayen said, "I came here for I am running away from my husband