hot the suns the Pwak was
sitting on the house-top in the sky combing her hair. The comb fell
from the sky to the ground, and the Pwak flew down to get it; but when
she found it, she could no longer fly back to the sky; for, while she
had been looking for the comb, the sky had risen to its present place;
since, when the man had shot the six suns, the remaining sun, being
frightened, ran away up into the air and took the sky with it. And so
on the present day, whenever the moon comes out, the Pwak cries to it;
but the moon says to it, 'What can I do, for you are down there below,
while I am up here in the sky?'"

TALE 82

AN UNEQUAL MATCH; OR, WHY THE CARABAO'S HOOF IS SPLIT.

Narrated by Godofredo Rivera, a Tagalog from Pagsanjan, La Laguna.

Once a carabao and a turtle met on a road. They walked in the woods,
and had a fine talk together. The turtle was a sort of humorist, and
was constantly giving exhibitions of his dexterity in getting food by
trickery. But he was especially anxious to win the friendship of the
carabao; for he thought that, if they were friendly, this big fellow
would help him whenever he got into trouble. So he said to the carabao,
"Let us live together and hunt out food together! thus we shall break
the monotony of our solitary lives."

But the carabao snorted when he heard this proposal; and he replied,
"You slow thing! you ought to live with the drones, not with a swift
and powerful person like me."

The turtle was very much offended, and to get even he challenged
the carabao to a race. At first the carabao refused to accept the
challenge, for he thought it would be a disgrace for him to run
against a turtle. The turtle said to the carabao, "If you will not
race with me, I will go to all the forests, woods, and mountains,
and tell all your companions and all my friends and all the animal
kingdom that you are a coward."

Now the carabao was persuaded; and he said, "All right, only give me
three days to get ready for the race." The turtle was only too glad
to have the contest put off for three days, for then he too would
have a chance to prepare his plans. The agreement between the turtle
and the carabao was that the race should extend over seven hills.

The turtle at once set out to visit seven of his friends; and, by
telling them that if he could win this race it would be to the glory
of the turtle kingdom, he got them to promise to help him. So the
next day he stationed a turtl