76 IN MALAY FORESTS. 



" When they got out to sea, the crocodile was so 

 pleased with his skill and address in having duped 

 the monkey that he could no longer keep the joke 

 to himself. So he explained to the monkey that 

 he was going to give his wife the monkey's heart 

 to eat. 



"The monkey, though he nearly died of fright, 

 showed no outward signs of alarm. On the contrary, 

 he said that his heart was entirely at the disposal 

 of the crocodile's wife, but declared that it was a 

 thousand pities that the crocodile had not explained 

 his purpose earlier, for he had left his heart hanging 

 011 a tree on the bank where he had been playing 

 when the crocodile had met him. 



" He suggested that they should return to get the 

 heart, and to this the crocodile, who realised that the 

 monkey without its heart was of no use to him, 

 agreed. 



" Back they went, therefore, and at the bank where 

 they had first met the monkey pointed out a tree 

 and was allowed to land. He sprang ashore, and 

 climbed to the top of the nearest tree, whence he 

 screamed and chattered his wrath and defiance at 

 the astonished crocodile. 



" Ever since then the crocodiles and the monkeys 

 have been enemies, and whenever a family of monkeys 

 see a crocodile, they gather round him and ask him 

 rude questions about his wife, and inquire whether 

 he has lately met many monkeys' hearts hanging on 

 the trees." 



The same afternoon, when the heat of the day 

 was over, we went out again and found another 



