n for having distracted
his attention; the woman, a goldsmith. The goldsmith is condemned, but
by a ruse succeeds in getting a wholly innocent fat-bellied Mohammedan
trader executed in his place. Parker abstracts a similar story from
southern India (p. 338). (See also his No. 28 [1 : 201-205] for another
kind of "clock-story" nearer the type of "The Old Woman and her Pig.")

61.

Page 392. Parker's No. 107 (2 : 146-149) is an elaboration of Jataka,
No. 374. (For other Oriental variants of this theme, see ibid.,
149-150.)

71.

For a Negro version of a flight-contest (not etiological) between a
crow and a pigeon, see MAFLS 13 : No. 53.

79.

The Upper Thompson Indians have a story of how the raven and the crow
were sent out after the Flood to find land. They did not return,
but fed on the corpses of the drowned people. For this reason they
were transformed into birds of black color, where formerly they were
white-skinned (JAFL 29 : 329).

82.

For bibliography of the relay-race motif among the American Indians
see Boas (JAFL 25 : 249; Thompson, 448-449). Thompson cites fourteen
American Indian versions, in all but two of which the winner is
the turtle. In one, the clever animal is a gopher; in the other, a
frog. For American Negro variants, see Thompson, 441; JAFL 31 : 221
(note 2); JAFL 32 : 394. In a Negro version from Bahamas (MAFLS 13 :
No. 54), horse and conch race; horse is defeated, and kicks the little
conches to death (cf. the ending of our No. 82). For a Mexican version
(rabbit and toad) see JAFL 25 : 214-215; for Oaxaca (toad and deer),
Radin-Espinosa, 193.

In an Araucano story (Sauniere, No. XI) the race between the fox and
the crawfish does not assume the relay form.

NOTES

[1] I am greatly indebted to Professor E. Arsenio Manuel, Department
of Anthropology, University of the Philippines, for biographical and
other data with regard to Dean S. Fansler. Mr. E. D. Hester kindly
furnished additional details.

[2] A common nickname for "Juan," equivalent to the English "Jack."

[3] Datu, old native name for "village chieftain."

[4] Casco, a commodious wooden cargo-boat commonly used in rivers
and propelled by poling.

[5] Carabao, a gray water-buffalo used throughout the Archipelago as
a draught-animal.

[6] The usual means of getting into a native grass house is a bamboo
ladder.

[7] This is a common Tagalog expression, and means, "I consider that
you are all inferior to me