Atondido Stories
ground, it quickly revived, and grew into a tall tree.
This hunter was the first man to take the liquor called tuba
from the cocoanut tree, and he and his friends began to drink it.
After they had become very fond of it, the hunter said to his
friends:
“The cocoanut tree is like the three animals whose blood
gave it life when it would have died. The man who drinks three
or four cups of tuba becomes like the noisy bird that I shot with
my blow-gun. One who drinks more than three or four cups be-
comes like the big monkey that acts silly; and one who becomes
drunk is like the pig that sleeps even in a mud-hole.”
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