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Their fury very visibly diminished, and the _datu_ was finally able to hold a colloquy with his new cofather-in-law, in which he persuaded him to come up into the house and hold a conference [19] over the matter.

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The bridegroom's father keeps offering betel nut and brew to his new "cofather-in-law" [6] and selects

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Whereupon he ordered the party back and told his cofather-in-law that it was passing strange that the dog should have howled just as they left the house and that he should leave his lance and bolo as an offering to one of the family deities.

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Then they started off again, but were recalled because the old fox happened to remember that his cofather-in-law had on several occasions during the early marriage proceedings displeased him, and so it became necessary to atone for the sin [14] by another gift.

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Finally the girl is led down the pole, but as her father may have espied, let us say, a fine dagger, or a lance that struck his fancy, nothing will satisfy him except to order them all back and tell his cofather-in-law that he must needs have the lance or dagger, giving some sly reason, as, for instance, that his wife had an ominous dream last night.

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Usually the parting injunction of the bride's father to his cofather-in-law warns him to watch for the omen bird.

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