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The Woman and The Squirrel

A woman finds a squirrel baby in her hair after sleeping for nine days due to a headache. The squirrel asks his mother to take nine necklaces and rings to the sultan to pay for his daughter's hand in marriage. The sultan demands that his house and possessions be turned to gold by nightfall. That night, the squirrel gets gold from his brother the mouse and uses it to turn the sultan's house and possessions to gold. When the sultan sees his house turned to gold, he dies of fright within two hours. The squirrel then marries the sultan's daughter.

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The Woman and The Squirrel

A woman finds a squirrel baby in her hair after sleeping for nine days due to a headache. The squirrel asks his mother to take nine necklaces and rings to the sultan to pay for his daughter's hand in marriage. The sultan demands that his house and possessions be turned to gold by nightfall. That night, the squirrel gets gold from his brother the mouse and uses it to turn the sultan's house and possessions to gold. When the sultan sees his house turned to gold, he dies of fright within two hours. The squirrel then marries the sultan's daughter.

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The Woman and the Squirrel So the woman started off again.

So the woman started off again. When she reached the sultan’s house,
she said to him, “I have come with these nine necklaces and these
One day a woman went out to find water. She had no water to drink, nine finger-rings that my son sends to you.”
because all the streams were dried up. As she went along, she saw
some water in a leaf. She drank it, and washed her body. As soon as “Yes,” said the sultan; “but I want my house to become gold, and I
she had drunk the water, her head began to hurt. Then she went want all my plants to become gold, and everything I have to turn into
home, spread out a mat, lay down on it, and went to sleep. She slept gold.”
for nine days. When she woke up, she took a comb and combed her
hair. As she combed it, a squirrel-baby came out from her hair. After But the woman left the presents to pay for the sultan’s daughter. The
the baby had been in the house one week, it began to grow and jump sultan told her that he wanted his house to be turned into gold that
about. It staid up under the roof of the house. very night. Then the woman went back and told all this to her son.
The Squirrel said, “That is good, my mother.”
One day the Squirrel said to his mother, “O mother! I want you to go
to the house of the Datu who is called ‘sultan,’ and take these nine Now, when night came, the Squirrel went to the sultan’s house, and
kamagi and these nine finger-rings to pay for the sultan’s daughter, stood in the middle of the path, and called to his brother, the Mouse,
because I want to marry her.” “My brother, come out! I want to see you.”

Then the mother went to the sultan’s house and remained there an Then the great Mouse came out. All the hairs of his coat were of gold,
hour. The sultan said, “What do you want?” and his eyes were of glass.
The Mouse said, “What do you want of me, my brother Squirrel?”
The woman answered, “Nothing. I came for betel-nuts.” Then the
woman went back home. “I called you,” answered the Squirrel, “for your gold coat. I want some
of that to turn the sultan’s house into gold.”
The Squirrel met her, and said, “Where are my nine necklaces?”
Then the Squirrel bit the skin of the Mouse, and took off some of the
“Here they are,” said the woman. gold, and left him. Then he began to turn the sultan’s things into gold.
First of all, he rubbed the gold on the betel-nut trees of the sultan;
But the Squirrel was angry at his mother, and bit her with his little next, he rubbed all the other trees and all the plants; third, he rubbed
teeth. the house and all the things in it. Then the sultan’s town you could
see as in a bright day. You would think there was no night there—
Again he said to his mother, “You go there and take the nine always day.
necklaces.”
All this time, the sultan was asleep. When he woke up, he was so
frightened to see all his things, and his house, of gold, that he died in
about two hours.

Then the Squirrel and the daughter of the sultan were married. The
Squirrel staid in her father’s home for one month, and then they went
to live in the house of the Squirrel’s mother. And they took from the
sultan’s place, a deer, a fish, and all kinds of food. After the sultan’s
daughter had lived with the Squirrel for one year, he took off his coat
and became a Malaki T’oluk Waig.

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