Tasek for you and your children for always.'

Then Pau Amma said, 'That is good, but I do not choose yet. Look!
there is that Man who talked to you at the Very Beginning. If he
had not taken up your attention I should not have grown tired of
waiting and run away, and all this would never have happened.
What will he do for me?'

And the Man said, 'If you choose, I will make a Magic, so that
both the deep water and the dry ground will be a home for you and
your children--so that you shall be able to hide both on the land
and in the sea.'

And Pau Amma said, 'I do not choose yet. Look! there is that girl
who saw me running away at the Very Beginning. If she had spoken
then, the Eldest Magician would have called me back, and all this
would never have happened. What will she do for me?'

And the little girl-daughter said, 'This is a good nut that I am
eating. If you choose, I will make a Magic and I will give you
this pair of scissors, very sharp and strong, so that you and
your children can eat cocoa-nuts like this all day long when you
come up from the Sea to the land; or you can dig a Pusat Tasek
for yourself with the scissors that belong to you when there is
no stone or hole near by; and when the earth is too hard, by the
help of these same scissors you can run up a tree.'

And Pau Amma said, 'I do not choose yet, for, all soft as I am,
these gifts would not help me. Give me back my shell, O Eldest
Magician, and then I will play your play.'