e on the top of each hill, after giving
them all instructions.

The third day came. Early the next morning the turtle and the carabao
met at the appointed hill. At a given signal the race began, and
soon the runners lost sight of each other. When the carabao reached
the second hill, he was astonished to see the turtle ahead of him,
shouting, "Here I am!" After giving this yell, the turtle at once
disappeared. And at every hill the carabao found his enemy ahead
of him. When the carabao was convinced at the seventh hill that he
had been defeated, he became so angry that he kicked the turtle. On
account of the hardness of its shell, the turtle was uninjured; but
the hoof of the carabao was split in two, because of the force of
the blow. And even to-day, the carabaos still bear the mark which an
unjust action on the part of their ancestor against one whom he knew
was far inferior to him in strength produced on himself.

Notes.

A Pampangan story furnished by Wenceslao Vitug of Lubao, Pampanga,
runs thus in abstract:--

The Deer and the Snail.

Snail challenges deer to race, and stations his friends at intervals
along the way. Every time deer stops and calls out to see where
his antagonist is, a snail answers from a spot a few yards ahead of
deer. At the end of the course the defeated deer falls fainting. His
gall is sucked out by the snails near him. To this day snails taste
bitter, and the deer has no gall.

For a similar Visayan tale see "The Snail and the Deer" (JAFL 20 :
315). A Tinguian version may be found in Cole (No. 82, p. 198).

This very widespread story is comprehensively discussed by Daehnhardt
(4 : 46-97), who gives a large number of variants from all parts of the
world. The Philippine forms of it may reasonably be adjudged native,
I believe; at any rate, they need not have been derived from Europe.

A Borneo version (Evans, 475-476) not given in Daehnhardt may be
mentioned here in conclusion. In it the plandok (mouse-deer), which
has deceived and brought about the deaths of all the larger animals,
agrees to tun a race with the omong (hermit-crab). The crab stations
three companions at corners of the square race-course, and wins. The
mouse-deer runs itself to death.

APPENDIX.

[Additional notes, chiefly in the nature of American Indian, Negro,
and Sinhalese (Ceylon) variants.]

Supplementary Bibliography.

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