Then Pau Amma thought a little and said, 'I have made my choice. I will take all the gifts.'

Then the Eldest Magician made a Magic with the right

hand, with all five fingers of his right hand, and lo and

behold, Best Beloved, Pau Amma grew smaller and

smaller and smaller, till at last there was only a little green

crab swimming in the water alongside the canoe, crying

in a very small voice, 'Give me the scissors!'

And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her

little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of the canoe

and gave him her scissors, and he waved them in his little

arms, and opened them and shut them and snapped

them, and said, 'I can eat nuts. I can crack shells. I can

dig holes. I can climb trees. I can breathe in the dry air,

and I can find a safe Pusat Tasek under every stone. I did

not know I was so important. Kun?' (Is this right?)