told him; and he said : “ There is only one thing which can
cure her, and that is a piece of a monkey’s heart.”
When he heard that he was sorely frightened, and remembered
all about his wife and the children, and he did not know
what to do. But at last when he had again and again asked his
son, and his son had again and again answered, “ There is only
one thing which can cure her, and that is a piece of a monkey’s
heart,” he determined to do as his wife asked.
So he went back to the cave, and asked the Monkey to come
with him to his own home in the lake, and he offered to carry
him on his back. And the Monkey said that he would come
and pay a visit to the Lizard’s home, and because he could not
swim he said he would be very glad to be carried on the Lizard’s
back.
So they started, and the Lizard was carrying the Monkey
across the lake on his back. And the Monkey asked about Mrs.
Lizard, and the children, and how she was. And the Lizard,
who was not very clever, told him all that his son had said, and
even that Mrs. Lizard could only be cured by a piece of a
monkey’s heart.
Now when he heard this the Monkey was very much
frightened, and he wondered what he ought to do, for he said;
“ There is no doubt that the Lizards are going to k ill me and
take my heart to cure Mrs. Lizard with.” So he said to the
Lizard : “ I know all about this cure. You are quite right, a
monkey’s heart is the only thing that can cure Mrs. Lizard, and,
indeed, if we cannot get the remedy, she will surely die. But
if she is very ill, one monkey’s heart is not enough ; she must
have two monkey’s hearts, or she will surely die.”
Now in order to bring her husband back to her, Mrs. Lizard
had told her son to say that she was very ill indeed, and the
Lizard stopped swimming in the middle of the water, and said :
“ What ought we to do ? ”
Then the Monkey said : “ I have a capital plan. I know where
I can get for Mrs. Lizard two monkeys’ hearts, and then we will
bring them back to her and she will recover. Put me on shore
again, and I will get them for you at once.” So the Lizard, who
was not a very clever Lizard, believed all that the Monkey told
him, and carried the Monkey back to shore on his back.
Then the Monkey climbed very quickly up into the tree, and
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said to the Lizard: “ Lizard, what a foolish Lizard, even for a
I H I H I y °U reaUy think that 1 wa* going to
order th t HI B Y°U t0 H as wel1 as myself, in
der that your ugly wife might recover. It would be a good
S fLt ‘ ° “ * X « « « be . ve ry
Then the Lizard saw that he had been outwitted and he
became very angry, and determined to kill the Monkey after all
H B H ■ B H ■ ^ h / c d d „ „ t
imb a tree So the Monkey continued to revile the Lizard
— hi* R H so unkindly, and it became n^ h t ’
will ™ a i 11 became night. said to himself : 1 1
B B R ^ I weregoing back to the lake, but I will really I m m m when the H Icomes d°wn and g°es back his cave I will spring upon him and kill him.” And so the
ve^cleTefthig * ^ * * he WaS d° ^ a
But BHHH the Monkey was a clever Monkey, and when at last it
the" could see nothing, he came down from
■the RHI tree, and cautiously ab°Ut H went to HI might be the Lizard his cave.tbreaadc Now he did not ¿planning some heornye I tsoo w the ns h*e
2 “ ! “ ^ from ,he ” ” " th - “ >»
I H M Great CaVe! 0 h ’ Great C a v e ! ” And then he
listened for awhile, and Said out very loud : “ I t is very s t r a n d
there mnst be someone in the cove, for there is no” h ^ o S S ”
Now there never was really any echo at all. ’
I B t 116 hCard WhEt be Said’ and after a while when
M I M I H M ° ut aloud again, “ Oh, Great Cav e! Oh
Great Cave ! the Lizard answered him : “ Oh Great Ca ve i
Oh, Great Cave ! ” So the Monkey knew that t h e S j I I I
^ S o f l H and he ran awa-v i eering at the silly Lizard.
So the Lizard returned to Mrs. Lizard in the lake.
II.
THE STONE LION.
Once upon a time there was in Tibet a poor woman and she
had two sons, and one of them was proud and the other one was
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