A PEL&NJDOK TALE. 75 



The pig said, " Let me go first and show the way. Be- 

 cause from the colour of his fur, it looks as if he were alive." 



The roe deer said, " I also am not very easy in my mind." 



The pelandok then said, " Don't talk too much there." 



So three of them, the deer and the elephant and the 

 rhinoceros bore the body along. The pelandok then got on 

 the top of an ant heap and began to lament for the tiger in 

 this wise. 



" Ho Toh Hulubalang, who achievest the desires of my 

 heart, yam yam." 



The roe deer said, " Listen Sang Babi, what a shrill cry 

 Sang Dirimba is making. What is he saying ? " 



While the roe deer was in the act of saying this to the pig, 

 the tiger seized hold of the deer by the back of her neck, and 

 dragged her down. The elephant rushed off trumpeting as he 

 went. The rhinoceros darted off' screaming. The roe deer 

 darted off like a bullet springing three fathoms at a time. 

 The pig followed. When the pelandok heard the uproar in the 

 forest and ah the animals running away, he said, " Spring, 

 Sang Eoedeer. Sang Deer's case is decided." 



After he had said that the pig drove his snoutwith a bang 

 against the projecting buttress of a merbau stem. The pelan- 

 dok heard it and also the scream that the pig gave in its pain. 

 The pelandok said, 



" Mind the buttress, Sang Pig. Sang Deer's case is over." 



The pig replied, 



" Let your own father mind thegbuttress Sang Dirimba. 

 I am sore all over and you do nothin but laugh." 



And that is why the pig's shoutis flat to this day. Then 

 all the animals ran right away. 



The story of the deer that was taken by the tiger goes on 

 to say that after they had finished their plot they divided the 

 deer into two : one half for the tiger and one half for the pelan- 

 dok. They then carried the meat off to a place where some 

 men had been making a clearing. The wood had nearly all 

 been felled. They took wood and made a place on which they 

 could smoke the meat. They also took some more fire wood. 

 When it was all ready and the meat had been placed in 



R. A. Sue. No. 46, 1906. 



