A PELANDOK TALti ( 87 



because a tiger has told me that he dreamt one night that he 

 was eating a black goat. Now what do you think this dream 

 forebodes ? r 



' Pardon your majesty, a thousand thousand be thy slave's 

 pardons, if it commends itself to your gracious majesty might 

 it not be as well to call this goat ? " 



After the pelandok had said this the king ordered the dog 

 to call the goat. Now the goat heard the king's order that he 

 was to be called so he came out. When the dog came he saw 

 him and called out to him, " Hai Sang Goat, his highness 

 calls you." 



• So the goat went into the house and left his torch below 

 on the ground. When he arrived the king began to examine him : 

 " I have called you Sang Goat, because this hulubalang dreamt 

 a night ago that he was eating you. What do you think of 

 that?" 



" Pardon your majesty, a thousand thousand pardons your 

 most gracious majesty, your highness can better judge what 

 ought to be done, but if the decision is left to me I do not like 

 that dream for it seems that in it I die." 



"What you say is very true, but all the same my judg- 

 ment is that whenever a man dreams of eating he should 

 eat and that whenever a man dreams of wearing anything he 

 should put it on, and that whenever a man dreams of being 

 married he should be wedded and so on." 



Then the king stopped speaking. The pelandok lay with 

 his eyes closed. When the king saw the pelandok lying like 

 that as if he was asleep he called to him, " Hai SelangDirimba." 



When the pelandok heard the king call he started from his 

 sleep and at once ordered the goat to go and get the torch. 

 He said, " Hai Sang Goat, go and get your torch at once." ' 



The goat went and got it. Then the pelandok said, 

 " Light it.'' 



The goat lit it. Then the pelandok made a disturbance 

 and asked the goat for the torch, the king said, 



" Hai Selang Dirimba what on earth do you mean by 

 making this*disturbance with this torch ? " 



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



