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282.
Pinagsakitan kong aking matuklasan ang bagay na isang ninais makamtan at nang sa pagkita ay hindi mapalaran tinaglay-taglay ko hangang kamatayan.
(Tag.) Tinik
I sought a thing I wished to get, and as I could not find it I kept it until my death.
Spine
283.
Adda tal-lo a Princesas sag-gaysa ti coartoda ngem saan da nga agquiquita.
(Iloc.) Tagunbao
There are three princesses; each has a separate room and they cannot see each other.
_Tagunboa_
A shrub used for hedges, with a tripart.i.te pod or capsule.
284.
Ania iti mula a uray bolding mailasinna?
(Iloc.) Siit
What thing is blind but can select?
Thorn
Qualities.
285.
Aniat cala-adan ti bomaro atao?
(Iloc.) Ti quinasuquer
What is the worst disfigurement for a young man?
Disobedience
Relations.h.i.+p.
286.
Ano ang itatawag mo sa biyenang babayi nang asawa nang kapatid mo?
(Tag.) Ina
What will you call the mother-in-law of your sister's husband?
Mother
287.
Ang amain kong buo ay may isang kapatid na babayi, ngunit siyai hindi ko naman ali. Sino siya?
(Tag.) Aking ina
My uncle has a sister but she is not my aunt. Who is she?
My mother
288.
Ang mga babaying A at B ay nakasalubong sa daan ng dalaw.a.n.g lalaki; at nagwika si A; naito na ang ating mga ama, mga ama nang ating mga anak; at mga tunay nating.
(Tag.) Ang ama ni A ay napakasal kay B at ang ama ni B ay napakasal kay A at nagkaroon sila nang tigisang anak.
Ladies A and B met two men and said, "There come our fathers, fathers of our sons and our own husbands."
A's father married with B and B's father with A, and each of them had a child.
289.
Nang malapos nang madalao nang isang lalaki ang isang bilango ay tinanong nang bantay; ano mo ba ang tawong iyon? Kapatid mo ba o ano? Ang sagot nang bilango ay ito; akoy ualang kapatid, ni pamangkin ni amain, ni nuno, ni apo, ni kahit kaibigan; ngungit ang ama nang tawong iyan, ay anak nang anak nang aking ama. Ano nang bilango ang tawong iyon.
(Tag.) Anak
After a man visited a prisoner, the guard asked him--"is that man your brother, or what?" The prisoner's answer was, "I have no brother, no uncle, no nephew, no grandfather, neither grandson nor friend; but that man's father is my father's son. "Who was that man?
Son
Religious.
290.
Oalayan pinalsay Dios ya amayamay iran sanaagui et sacsaquey so pait da.
(Pang.--also Bis.) Colintas
Many of them, brothers--but they have only one bodytube.
Beads
291.
Adda tal-lo gasut a bacac maymaysat nanglidingac.
(Iloc.) Cuentas