?4 A PELANDOK TALE. 



The tiger said, "How ever are you going to eat her?" 



The pelandok replied, " That is why I have corne to find 

 yoM, in order that we may lay our plans together." 



The tiger said, " What are your plans ? " 



The pelandok said, " You, hulubalang, must pretend to be 

 dead, and lie down with your mouth wide open and your body 

 covered with flies. When you are ready, I will call together the 

 deer and the elephant and the rhinoceros and the roe deer and 

 the pig. As soon as we have got them all together, I will give 

 them each their work. But you are to do nothing but listen 

 to whatever I say in my mourning. You are to do nothing when 

 we give you your funeral bath or when we are on the road. 

 But when I call out, " Yam yam " that is the time when you 

 are to catch Sang Eusa." 



The tiger answered, " Very well then.'' 



The story about the tiger goes on to say that after he 

 had made this plot with the pelandok, he pretended to be 

 dead lying down with open mouth covered with flies. Also 

 he did not breathe through his nostrils but only through his 

 mouth. After he was ready the pelandok went away to get 

 the elephant, the rhinoceros, the deer, the pig, and the roe 

 deer. This was how he called them, 



" Hai, Sang Elephant, Sang Ehinoceros, Sang Deer, Sang 

 Pig, Sang Eoe-deer, King Solomon has ordered you all to be 

 summoned together in order that you may bury his Huluba- 

 lang Dirimba, who died last night. Come at once." 



So all these animals followed behind the pelandok who 

 led them to the place where the tiger was. When they had 

 all got there, the pelandok ordered Sang Pig to dig a hole 

 and the elephant to bring water, and the deer to hold the 

 tiger's head on her lap, and also the upper part of the body, 

 and the roe deer was told to hold the body from the waist to 

 the tail, and the rhinoceros was told to make a smooth road. 

 When the preparations were all finished the pelandok told 

 them to bear the body to the hole. He ordered the deer to 

 lift up the head and the elephant to support the body. But 

 .the roe deer and the pig began to bicker. The roe deer said, 



" Let me carry the tail." 



Jour. Straits Branch 



