When he had received the money, Juan left his friends, went on board
ship, and sailed away to a foreign country. One day the friend who
had bought the hat desired to make a showing with it. So he invited
several friends, among them some ladies. He took them to one of the
stores, and there ordered some refreshments to be served them. When
they had finished, the man bowed with his hat, and started to leave.

"Thank you, sir!" said the owner of the store, "but where is my
payment for the refreshments you have just eaten?"

The owner of the hat was astonished, and, thinking that perhaps he
held the hat in the wrong way, or else his fingers were not on the
right color, he turned the hat around. Then he made another bow. The
owner of the shop now became angry, and began to swear at the man. The
other became excited, twirling the hat around, and holding it in as
many different ways as he could think of. Finally the shop-keeper
ordered the man arrested.

When the owner of the hat heard how Juan had played his trick by paying
twenty pesos in advance, he fainted and became very sick. In the mean
time Juan was performing other tricks in some different country.

Notes.

This droll was without doubt imported from Europe, where it has
a fairly wide distribution. It does not appear hitherto to have
been found in the Orient. In the European forms we find it both as
a separate tale, like our story, and also as a part of the "Master
Cheat" cycle, which we have discussed in the notes to No. 20. For a
complete list of the known occurrences of the "hat pays" episode, see
Bolte-Polivka, 2 : 10-15, incident D (on Grimm, No. 61). According
to their classification, versions from Holland, Denmark, Sweden,
Rumania, Serbo-Croatia, Poland, Russia, and Lithuania are known. See
also Koehler-Bolte, 246, 251 (note 1).

TALE 51

JUAN AND CLOTILDE.

Narrated by Vicente Hilario, a Tagalog, who heard the story from an
old man living in Batangas.

In ages vastly remote there lived in a distant land a king of such
prowess and renown, that his name was known throughout the four regions
of the compass. His name was Ludovico. His power was increased twofold
by his attachment to an aged magician, to whom he was tied by strong
bonds of friendship.

Ludovico had an extremely lovely daughter by the name of Clotilde. Ever
since his arrival at the palace the magician had been passionately
in love with her; but his extreme old age and his somewh