| Once upon a time there lived in the town of Baybay a man whose name was abac. |
| Scotty pointed at drying racks on which Manila hemp fiber, product of the abac, was drying. |
| The introduction of irrigation will make possible the planting of abac in many districts where it is now unknown. |
| Verses are four lines long with rhyming patters of abac, aabb or acbc. |
