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Before going to the palace of the sultan, the eight ladies told the rice statue to laugh when they reach the palace so the sultan and his trusted servant will think the statue is the little boy.  As they neared the palace, they were greeted by the sultan and he invited them into his house.  When they were at the palace, Putli-l gave the rice statue some betel which he chewed.  The trusted servant of Sultan then said:  Let us now cut the little boy into several pieces.

The eight ladies said:  First we will chew betel, and then we will cut the little boy into pieces.

The little boy statue laughed at Putli-l, and the trusted servant became jealous because he was fond of Putli-l.  The ladies then cut the rice statue into several pieces, and placed the pieces into a trunk.  In three days they were to open the trunk and see what happened to [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] the boy.  After three nights the opened the trunk.  P-l then told the little boy to dress up so he could go to the palace of the king.  When he dressed himself the rooster crowed, the dogs barked and it thundered because he looked so well.  After going to the palace, no one was around so the little boy went into the trunk where the rice statue had been placed.  At 7 a.m., the trusted servant opened the trunk and the little boy emerged laughing. 

The sultan said:  I will transfer[[strikethrough]] m [[/strikethrough]] my title to you.  You will be the sultan, and I will be your follower.

[[strikethrough]] Tumanggun, [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Tumanggon]] the trusted servant of the sultan, said:  Do not transfer your title so easily.  Let the eight ladies cut me into [[strikethrough]] two [[/strikethrough]] pieces and place my body in a trunk for three days.  If I do not emerge alive as this boy did, then transfer your title to the boy.

The eight ladies cut [[strikethrough]] Tumanggun [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the servant]] into pieces as small as kernels of rice.  The pieces were placed in the trunk and kept there [[strikethrough]] or [[/strikethrough]] for three nights; when the trunk was opened, the body was smelley and infested with worms.

The[[strikethrough]] n [[/strikethrough]] sultan then transferred his title to the boy.  He struck his gong, named Tangobangwar-
Gandanglaia, and called all his subjects to the palace.  He told them that he was going to transer his title to the small boy because he was so brave and clever.  All his followers agrred that the boy deserved to be sultan.

After the boy became sultan, he married P-s.  After a few months, P-s became pregnant.  She delivered a girl who was named Putlih.  When his child was 44 [[strikethrough]] yea [[/strikethrough]] days old, the new sultan remembered that he had placed a leper in a trunk outisde his fence (the one he found on the beach).  He went and got the trunk and opened it up.  The young sultan build a house for the leper woman, and he began courting her.  He [[strikethrough]] would go [[/strikethrough]] went to see her very early in the morning, and then return to his house at noon.  The following day he went to see her in the early morning and returned to his palace at night.  He then began visiting the leper woman for a week at a time.  His wife soon became angry at him.