o substitute her own for the dog's, the dog
carries its two daughters to the forest, and there rears them. When
they have become of marriageable age, they are found by two princes,
who take them away and make them their wives. For twelve years the poor
dog looks in vain for her lost children. One day the eldest daughter
looks out of her window, and sees a dog running down the street. "That
must be my long-lost mother!" she exclaims to herself; and she runs
out, gets the animal, bathes it and feeds it. The dog now wants to
go visit her younger daughter, although the elder tries in vain to
dissuade her mother from going. When the younger daughter sees the dog,
she says, "That must be my mother! What will my husband think of me
if he learns that this wretched, ugly, miserable-looking dog is my
mother?" She orders the servants to throw stones at it and drive it
away. Wounded in the head, the dog runs back to her elder daughter,
but dies, in spite of the tender care it receives. The daughter now
tries to conceal the body until she can bury it. The husband discovers
the corpse of the dog, but it has become a statue of gold set with
diamonds and other precious stones. He asks where the treasure came
from. His wife lies, and says, "Oh, it is only a present my parents
sent me!" [The rest of the story has nothing to do with ours: it is
a variant of the "Toads and Diamonds" cycle (see notes to No. 47).]

It will be noticed that in the Indian tale the roles of the daughters
are the reverse of what they are in our story.

TALE 54

TOMARIND AND THE WICKED DATU.

Narrated by Eutiquiano Garcia of Mexico. Pampanga. He says that this
is an old Pampangan tale.

Before the Spanish occupation there were in the Philippines many
petty kingdoms headed by native princes known as datus. Luzon, the
scene of countless ravages and hard fightings of warlike tribes, was
the home of Datu Nebucheba. His kingdom--at first only a few square
miles--was greatly extended by the labor of his young brave warrior,
Tomarind. Tomarind had a very beautiful wife, with whom Datu Nebucheba
fell in love; but the ruler kept his vile desire secret in his heart
for many years. Many times he thought of getting rid of his warrior
Tomarind, and thus getting possession of his beautiful wife.

One day Tomarind was sent on a dangerous errand. He was ordered
to get an enchanted marble ball from one of the caves in a certain
mountain. Two monsters of terrible a