The Baboon Pa Si Bagok and 

 the Girl. 



By G. M. Laidlaw. 



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An earlier story by Penghulu Mat Nordin refers to this big 

 baboon. But this is the only other story of Pa Si Bagok that 

 I can find. No further information or additional stories can 

 be had. Nor can the story teller give any history of the 

 tale. It has nothing to do with Hanuman (" Handoman.") 



Once upon a time there was a certain poor man and his 

 wife who lived in a clearing in the jungle. Now these two had 

 a daughter. Every day the husband and his wife went off to 

 their clearing and left their daughter alone in the house. One 

 day while they were away a big baboon found this girl. When 

 she saw him she was very frightened and all her joints and 

 bones shivered because of her fear of the baboon. But she 

 disguised her feelings by talking. The baboon on his part fell 

 deeply in love with the girl and wished to make her his wife. 

 The girl said, " How are you so wet, Pa Si Bagok ? " 



" I have just been fishing with a casting net." 



" If you have been fishing, where is your casting net ? " 



"I left in a terap tree. If I left it there nobody will 

 know." 



" But if you have been fishing, where are the fish ? " 



11 1 left them in the river, so that nobody should know." 



" Why is your head so flat ? " 



" Because I wear an Arab cap every day." 



" Where is your cap ? " 



" I left it in the house." 



" Why are your fingers so bent ? " 



" Because I hold a pen every day." 



[Note. — A great many common nouns |in the Malay are im- 

 properly typed with a capital]. 



Jour. S. B. R. A. Soc, No. 46,jl906. 



