ere to get food
or where to spend this cold night."

"I'll conduct you to a place where you can spend the night and get
all you want to eat," said the monkey.

"All right," said the two travellers. "Lead on! for we are very hungry
and at the same time very tired."

"Follow me," said the crafty monkey.

The turtle and the crocodile followed the monkey, and soon he brought
them to a field full of ripe pumpkins. "Eat all the pumpkins you want,
and then rest here. Meanwhile I'll go home and take my sleep, too."

While the two hungry travellers were enjoying a hearty meal, the owner
of the plantation happened to pass by. When he saw the crocodile,
he called to his laborers, and told them to bring long poles and
their bolos. The turtle clung to the tail of the crocodile, and away
they went.

"Don't cling to my tail! Don't cling to my tail!" said the
crocodile. "I cannot run fast if you cling to my tail. Let go! for
the men will soon overtake us."

"I have to cling to your tail," said the turtle, "or else there will
be no one to push you."

But their attempt to escape was unsuccessful. The men overtook them
and killed them both. Such was the unhappy end of the turtle and
the crocodile.

MORAL: Never trust a new friend or an old enemy.

Notes.

I know of no exact parallels for this story, though the character
of the monkey as depicted here is similar to that in No. 55. Compare
with it the role of the deceitful jackal in some of the South African
stories (e.g., Metelerkamp, No. v; Honey, 22, 24, 45, 105, etc.). This
may be a sort of "compensation story," manufactured long ago, however,
in which the monkey gets even with his two traditional opponents,
the crocodile and the turtle.

TALE 59

THE IGUANA AND THE TURTLE.

Narrated by Sixto Guico of Binalonan, Pangasinan, who says that the
story is fairly common among the Pangasinanes.

Once upon a time there lived two good friends,--an iguana and a
turtle. They always went fishing together. One day the turtle invited
the iguana to go catch fish in a certain pond that he knew of. After
they had been there about two hours, the old man who owned the pond
came along. The iguana escaped, but the turtle was caught. The old
man took the turtle home, tied a string around its neck, and fastened
it under the house.

Early in the morning the iguana went to look for his friend the
turtle. The iguana wandered everywhere looking for him, and finally
he found him