tent as if it were his own. The fox assures the official attendant
that the tent is Boroltai Ku's, but that it has one defect. "What is
that?"--"Under the tent lives a demon. Won't you bring down lightning
to slay him?" The attendant brings down lightning and slays Khan
Manguis, who is sitting in the hole. Boroltai Ku becomes khan,
and takes all the possessions, cattle, and people of Khan Manguis,
and goes to live near his father-in-law.

In this story, it will be noticed, the animal's ruse is the same as
ours,--it persuades the rich khan (demons in ours) to hide himself
in a pit. There he is subsequently killed.

The borrowed measure returned with coins sticking to it has already
been met with in No. 20 (c). The incident occurs elsewhere in Filipino
drolls. It is curious to find it so consistently a part of the Filipino
"Puss in Boots" stories.

In conclusion may be noted the fact that in "Andres the Trapper"
the monkey's solicitude over the appearance his master will make at
the rich man's house has a parallel in the jackal's similar concern
in the Santal story:--

Before the wedding-feast, the jackal gave Jogeswhar some hints as to
his behavior. He warned him that three or four kinds of meats and
vegetables would be handed round with the rice, and bade him to be
sure to help himself from each dish; and when betel-nut was handed
to him after the feast, he was not to take any until he had a handful
of money given him; by such behavior he would lead every one to think
he was really a prince.--BOMPAS, p. 175.

In Dracott's story the human hero is a weaver also, as in the
Santal. His last exploit has been borrowed from another Indian tale
not connected with our group, "Valiant Vicky the Weaver" (Steel-Temple,
p. 80; cf. Kingscote, No. IX).

TALE 49

JUAN THE FOOL.

This story was narrated by Remedios Mendoza of Manila, but the story
itself comes from the Tagalog province of Bulakan.

(NARRATOR'S NOTE.--This story was told to me by a student. He said
that he first heard it in one of the informal gatherings which are
very common in Bocawe, Bulakan, during the hot season. The young men
often assemble at a little shop kept by a young woman, and there the
story-teller of the barrio tells stories. This story of Juan was told
at one of these gatherings by an old man about fifty years old.)

Juan is twenty years old. At this age he begins to become famous in his
little barrio. He is short in stature. His ey