r went away, he tied all the chickens and hens together,
and hung them on a tree. He did this, because he thought that no bird
of prey could see them there. In the evening, when his mother came
home, she asked if everything was all right. Juan said, "Nana, I tied
all the hens and chickens by their legs, and hung them in that tree,
so that they would be safe." The mother asked where they were. Juan
showed them to her, but they were all dead. The mother was angry,
and whipped Juan very severely.

Time passed on, and Juan grew up to be a man; but he was as lazy as
ever. He wanted to get married, but the girl he had picked out was the
daughter of a rich man; and his mother told him that he was not a good
match for the girl, for they were very poor, and, besides, he was too
lazy to support a wife. Still Juan was determined to marry the girl,
and he thought out a way to get her. One day Juan went to work in the
fields, and earned a peseta. The next day he earned another. Then he
said to his mother, "Nana, please go to the father of Ines Cannogan
(for such was the name of the girl) and borrow their salup (a half
cocoanut-shell used for measuring). The mother went, and Ines asked
her who had sent for the salup. The mother told her that her son
Juan was a merchant that had just arrived from a successful trip. So
the salup was lent. When returning the measure, Juan put the two
pesetas in the husk of the cocoanut-shell, and told his mother to
take it back to Ines, pesetas and all. When Ines examined the salup,
she found the pesetas, and told her father all about them.

Not long afterwards Juan sent his mother again to borrow the
measure. Again Juan returned it with money sticking in the husk of
the shell. This he did several times, until at last Ines's father
believed that Juan was very rich. Juan now had a chance to talk with
Ines's father about his daughter, and of course the old man accepted
his proposal immediately. So Juan and Ines were married.

After their marriage, when the old man found out that his new
son-in-law was not only very poor, but also very lazy, he repented
of his rashness. However, he compelled both Juan and his wife to
go work on his farm. Once, when Ines was taking her siesta, many
wild cocks and hens came to eat the rice which she had put in the
sun to dry. Juan was too lazy to get up and drive them away, so he
took Ines's gold hairpin and threw it at the birds. When Ines awoke,
she missed her hairpin.