ated
all his opponents. The next day his bridal ceremony was celebrated,
and the crown was placed on his head. That very day he ascended the
throne to rule over the kingdom. Although Juan was now king, he was
not proud. He and the queen visited Maria to get her to live in the
palace; but the old woman would not allow her to go with her brother,
as she had no other companion in the hut.

One day a prince was lost in the forest. He happened to come across
the hut in which Maria was living. He fell in love with her, and
wanted to marry her. As the old woman offered no objections to the
proposal of the prince, the following day Maria became a queen, just
as her brother had become king. Although the parents of Juan and Maria
had been very cruel, yet the king and queen did not forget them. The
brother and sister visited their father and mother, whom they found in
the most wretched condition. When the father saw that his children had
become king and queen, he wept greatly for his former cruelty to them.

Notes.

A Tagalog folk-tale printed in the "Journal of American Folk-Lore"
(20 : 306), "Tagalog Babes in the Woods," is related to our story.
"There the twins Juan and Maria are driven to the forest by their cruel
father. After days of wandering, Juan climbs a tree, and sees in the
distance a house. They approach it, and, having asked permission to
enter, are invited in; but there is no one to be seen in this magic
house, although food and drink and clothing are supplied the two
wanderers in abundance." The story is evidently incomplete. It is
based on a metrical romance, "The Life of the Brother and Sister,
Juan and Maria, in the Kingdom of Spain," of which I will give a
brief synopsis, since the chap-book version contains details which
are lacking in the fragment cited above.

This metrical romance is printed in both Tagalog and Pampangan. My
Tagalog copy, which contains 1836 lines, bears the date 1910, but is
clearly a reprint. The Pampangan text is slightly shorter, with 1812
lines. Retana (No. 4164) cites a Pampangan version some time between
the years 1860 and 1898, and a later reprint of 1902 (No. 4349). The
summary that follows is based on the Tagalog.

Juan and Maria.

During the reign of King Charles the Fifth there lived in Spain a
poor couple, Fernando and Juana. They had a son Juan, ten years old,
and a daughter Maria, but eight months in age. Fernando was very cruel
to his wife and children. He was al