. The monkey made a motion as if he were going to follow; but,
instead, he lifted up the biggest stone he could find and threw it
down the well. "They are dead," he said to himself, laughing. "Ah,
I have caught you! Ha, ha!"

The Burincantadas now being dead, the monkey was at leisure to
decide what to do next. He entered their palace, and there he found
everything magnificent. "This is the very place where my master
shall live!" He opened the first room, but there he found nothing
but bones. He closed the door and opened the second, where he found
many prisoners who were waiting to be eaten. He set them all free,
and told them to clean up the palace at once. The prisoners set to
work, not forgetting to thank the monkey for his kindness. Before he
left the palace, he addressed the crowd as follows: "My brothers and
sisters, if any one comes and asks you who your master is, tell him
that he is Don Juan Pusong Tambi-tambi."

Then he left the crowd of people busy cleaning the palace, and went
to the farm, where he found thousands of horses, cows, and sheep. "My
master is indeed rich," he said to himself. He called the shepherd
who was lying under the tree, and said to him, "Tell your other
companions that, if any one comes and asks whose animals these are,
they must answer that they all belong to Don Juan Pusong. Don Juan
is your master now."

After seeing that everything was in order, the monkey hastened to
his master, who was still ploughing, and said, "Throw away your
plough. Let's go to the king's palace, for to-night you will be
married to the princess Dona Elena."

Night came. The palace was splendidly adorned. The princess was
sitting by her father, when Don Juan, dressed in his striped clothes
and accompanied by the monkey, entered the gate of the palace. Soon the
priest came, and the princess was called to the reception-hall. When
she saw her bridegroom, she ran away in despair, and cried to her
father, "Father, how dare you accept as my husband such a base, dirty,
crooked man! Look at him! Why, he is the meanest of the mean."

But the king replied, "He is rich. If you don't marry him, I'll punish
you very severely." The princess had to obey her father; but, before
giving her hand to Juan Pusong, she said, "O God! let me die."

When the marriage ceremony was over, the king called the monkey,
and asked, "Where is the couple going to live?"

"In Don Juan's palace," was the reply of the monkey.

The king im