One day a mother took her two children with her when she went to color cloth. Not far from her home was a mud hole7 where the carabao liked to wallow, and to this hole she carried her cloth, some dye pots, and two shell spoons.  
After she had put the cloth into the mud to let it take up the dark color, she built a fire and put over it a pot containing water and the leaves used for dyeing. Then she sat down to wait for the water to boil............