Juan told her what he had done with it. She
scolded him so severely, that he felt hurt, and began to weep bitterly,
for even his wife disliked him.

The next day Juan went to look for the hairpin at the place where
he had thrown it. To his great surprise, he found a bush with golden
branches, and on one of them was the hairpin. Immediately he called
his wife. They pulled up the bush, and discovered at its roots a
jar full of gold and silver money. Now Ines was very proud of her
husband's luck. They went to the town to tell their father of their
good fortune. From now on, the old man no longer hated Juan, hut
loved him, and gave him all his property to supervise.

Thus Juan Sadut became a rich man without any effort. Fortune favors
the lazy--sometimes.

The other story comes from the other end of the Archipelago, from the
province of Misamis. It was narrated by Antonio Cosin of Tagoloan,
Misamis, and is a Visayan tale. As may easily be seen, it is distantly
related to Grimm, No. 7, "A Good Bargain." For the "sale to animals"
comic episode, see Grimm's notes; Clouston, "Book of Noodles," p. 148;
and Bolte-Polivka, 1 : 60. For the "sale to statue" incident, which
is analogous to our third episode below, see Clouston, ibid., p. 146;
Crane, 379, note 12; Cosquin, 2 : 178. The story follows:--

Juan Loco.

A great many years ago there lived a certain fool that went by the name
of Juan Loco. He was the son of a butcher, in so far as the following
experiences of his are concerned; he had many other experiences that
are not recorded in this story.

Juan could not be intrusted with anything, he was such a dunce; but one
day he persuaded his father to let him go out and sell meat. So about
eight in the morning Juan left home with about three pesos' worth
of pork, full of many a hopeful expectation. After having wandered
through many streets, he noticed that a big horse-fly was following him
with an imploring murmur. Imagining that the fly wanted to buy meat,
this sapient vender said to it, "Do you want to buy meat?" The fly
answered with a "buzzzzz." For Juan this was a sufficient answer:
so he left one-third of the pork with the fly, saying that he was
coming back again for his pay. Next he met a hungry and greatly-abused
pig, and he asked it if it wanted to buy meat. The pig merely said,
"hack, hack," and gave a few angry nods, but Juan understood it to
be saying, "Yes:" so he threw it one-half of the meat he had left