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was afraid that the other would run awa) reed thai 



they should tie theii tail tog< ther. 



\t this time the beat had a fairly long tail, and the tiger's 

 was shorter than it is now.] 



So they tied their tails together and set out, and, aftei a 

 little, the) came to the place where the buffalo was waiting, 

 ami saw i he monkey still crunching up the "tiger's head." 

 Thereupon, being frightened, the) both tried to escape, forget- 

 ting that their tails were tied together. 



At length as they struggled one against the other, the 

 bear's tail broke off short, ami they both ran away. 



The next time the tiger met the hear, he- said, " Your loss 

 is my gain : for you have lost your tail while mine has become , 

 longer. " 



Ami that is the reason why, to the present day, the beat 

 has only a stump of a tail. 



AK Void [ntoie. 



A folk-story obtained from the Senoi of the 

 Behrang Valley. 



[The Sakai who told me this story declared that it had been 

 handed down among hi us. There seems to me, 



however, / thinking that, at any rate, parts of 



it must have been adopted from the Malays, or, if the story is really 

 old. from some fairly civilised horn the Sakai were in 



contact before the time of the invasion of the Peninsula by Malays. 



I. //. A'. '/■;.! 



["here was once a youth called Budak Void [ntoie Bij; 

 Knife Youth) who was the youngest of seven brothers. His 

 six elder brothers were famous smiths, and one day, when 

 tad finished work, Budak Void [ntoie asked them for 

 some iron in order to try his hand, but his brothers refused to 

 give him any. So he said to them, "How am I to learn, if 

 you won't give me any iron ? Then he collected the odds 

 and ends and scales of iron that they had left, beat them out 

 into a huge knife as largi a 1 birah leaf, and made a handle 

 for it as large as the bole ol a cocoanut-tree. 



When it was finished he said to his father and mother 

 and his brothers. " I am going on a journey." So he made 

 ready, but before starting he planted a certain kind of 

 flowering shrub, with a single blossom upon it, in the level 

 space in front of tin I to his mother, and to his 



brothers, "See. mother, see. you, my brothers, this shrub 

 of mine 1 It the blossom on it withers entirely 1 --hall lie 



