mediately ordered carriages to be gotten ready. Then they
started on their journey. Four hours passed, and still no palace
was to be seen. The king became impatient, and said to the monkey,
"Monkey, if what you have said to me is not true, your head shall
answer for your lie." Hardly had he said these words when he beheld
before him a number of men watching a herd of cattle. "I wonder who
owns these, monkey!" said the king.

The monkey made some signs, and soon three shepherds came running up
to them. "Good-evening, king!" they said.

"Good-evening!" replied the king. "Whose cattle are these?"

"They are all owned by Don Juan Pusong," said the shepherds.

The king nodded, and said to himself, "He is truly rich." The palace
was now in sight. The king could hardly express his joy on seeing
such a magnificent building. "Why, it is not a palace; it is heaven
itself," he said.

They were now upstairs. The king, on seeing still more beauties, said,
"I confess, I am not the richest man on earth." Soon he died of joy,
and his body was placed in a golden coffin and buried in the church.

The couple inherited his dominion; but Queen Elena could not endure
her ugly husband, and two weeks later she died broken-hearted. So
Juan was left as sole ruler of two kingdoms. The monkey became his
chief minister.

This story shows that a compassionate man oftentimes gets his reward.

Andres the Trapper.

Narrated by Domingo Perez of San Carlos, Pangasinan, who heard the
story from his grandfather, now dead. The story is popular among
the Pangasinanes.

Once upon a time there lived in a village a poor widow who had an
only son named Andres. They lived in a small hut situated near the
Patacbo forest. When Andres was between twelve and thirteen years old,
his mother died. From now on he lived alone in his mean little hut,
where he had to cook his own food and wash his clothes.

One morning some boys invited Andres to go to the woods with them to
trap. When they got to the forest, his companions set their traps
in the places where the wild chickens used to feed. Then they went
home. In the afternoon they returned to the woods, where they found
that each trap had caught a wild cock. Now Andres became envious of
his companions: so when he reached home, he took his knife and made
two traps of his own. After he had finished them, he ran to the forest
and set them. Early the next morning he went to the woods to see if he
had caught an