The crocodile, in revenge, watches till he comes
to drink, and then seizes him by the leg. The jackal tells her
that she has got hold of a root instead of his leg: so she lets go,
and he escapes. Next she goes to his den to wait for him, and shams
dead. When the jackal sees her, he says that the dead always wag their
tails. The crocodile wags hers, and the jackal skips off. Closely
connected with this last is a story by Rouse, No. 20, "The Cunning
Jackal," only here the jackal's opponent is a turtle. The original,
unadapted story runs thus as given in the notes by Mr. Rouse:--

Jackal sees melons on the other side of the river. Sees a
tortoise. "How are you and your family?"--"I am well, but I have
no wife."-"Why did you not tell me? Some people on the other side
have asked me to find a match for their daughter."--"If you mean
it, I will take you across." Takes him across on his back. When
the melons are over (gone?), the jackal dresses up a jhan-tree as a
bride. "There is your bride, but she is too modest to speak till I am
gone." Tortoise carries him back. Calls to the stump. No answer,--Goes
up and touches it. Finds it a tree. Vows revenge. As jackal drinks,
catches his leg. "You fool! you have got hold of a stump by mistake;
see, here is my leg!" pointing to stump. Tortoise leaves hold, Jackal
escapes. Tortoise goes to jackal's den. Jackal returns, and sees
the footprints leading into the den. Piles dry leaves at the mouth,
and fires them. Tortoise expires.

Compare also a Borneo tale of a mouse-deer and a crocodile (Evans,
475). In a Santal story (Bompas, No. CXXIII, "The Jackal and the
Leopards") a jackal tricks some leopards. In the second half he
outwits a crocodile. Crocodile seizes jackal's leg. Jackal: "What a
fool of a crocodile to seize a tree instead of my leg!" Crocodile
lets go, and jackal escapes. Crocodile hides in a straw-stack to
wait for jackal. Jackal comes along wearing a sheep-bell it has
found. Crocodile says, "What a bother! Here comes a sheep, and I
am waiting for the jackal." Jackal hears the exclamation, bums the
straw-stack, and kills the crocodile.

The "Vanarinda-jataka," No. 57, contains what I believe is the
original of the "house-answering owner" droll episode in our Pampangan
variant. The monkey suspected the crocodile of lurking on the rock
to catch him: so he shouted, "Hi, rock!" three times, but received
no answer. Then he said, "How comes it, Friend Rock, that you won't
answ