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My black horseman rides three horses but he is crying like a fool.
A pot of cooking rice
The three horses are the firestones or the three supports of the pot in the pottery stove; the bubbling is the crying.
Time.
353.
Ania nga aldao ti caatid-dagan?
(Iloc.) Ti aldao a saan a panangan.
What day is the longest?
The day on which you do not eat
354.
Nag daan si Cabo negro, namatay na lahat ang tao.
(Tag.) Gabi
The black Corporal pa.s.sed, all the people died.
Night
Died, here, is slept.
Tools.
355.
Nung eminuna ing malati, ing maragul emituqui.
(Pamp.) Barrenang espiral
If not preceded by the smaller the larger one will not go.
Auger
356.
Adda pinarsua iti Dios natanquen ti pammaguina madi a mangan no di matoen ti olona.
(Iloc.) Paet
There is a creature of G.o.d whose body is hard; it does not wish to eat unless you strike its head.
Chisel
357.
Adda babay a labang di mangan no diai paculan.
(Iloc.) Paet
There is a woman who does not eat unless you strike her.
Chisel
358.
Ing damulag cung dapa, quing gulut ya ta tacla.
(Pamp.) Catam
My crawling carabao excretes its feces upward.
Plane
359.
Taot ngato, taot baba, cayot tingana.
(Iloc.) Ragadi
Man above, man below, wood in middle.
Saw
Below the horizontally placed timber to be sawed a pit is dug; one sawyer is below in the pit, the other above, each holds a handle of the great saw, which works up and down.
Toy.
360.
Enbontayog coy ecnol quinmocaoc ya tampol.
(Pang.) Bibintarol
I throw the eggs; they crow immediately.
Firecracker
361.
Adda abalbalayco a sinam granada rineppetco a binastabasta imbarsacco diay daga nasay sayaat ti cancionna, (Iloc.) Sunay
