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Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No. 3-BATTLE OF THE MONKEY

AND THE GRAB.

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BATTLEofThe Monkey & The Crab.

monkey and acrab once met

when goinground a

mountain.


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The monkey had picked up apersimmon-seed, and the crab hada piece of toasted rice-cake. Themonkey seeing this, and wishingto get something that could beturned to good account at once,

said: "Pray, exchange that rice-cake for this persimmon-seed."The crab, without a word, gaveup his cake, and took the per-simmon-seed and planted it. At


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once it sprung up, and soon be-came a tree so high one had tolook up at it. The tree was fullof persimmons but the crab had

no means of climbing the tree. Sohe asked the monkey to climb upand get the persimmons

for him.

The monkey got up on a limbof the tree and began to eat the

persimmons. The unripe persim-mons he threw at the crab, but


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all the ripe and good ones he

put in his pouch. The crab under

the tree thus got his shell badly

bruised and only by good luck

escaped into his hole, where he

lay distressed with pain and not

able to get up. Now when therelatives and household of the

crab heard how matters stood

they were surprised and angry,and declared war and attacked the


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monkey, who leading forth a nu-merous following bid defiance to

the other party. The crabs, find-ing themselves unable to meet and

cope with this force,

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became still more exasperated andenraged, and retreated into theirhole, and held a council of war. Then


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came a rice-mortar, a pounder, a bee,and an egg, and together they devised

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First, they requested that peace

be made with the crabs; and thus

they induced the king of the mon-

keys to enter their hole unattended

and seated him on the hearth.The monkey not suspecting any


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plot, took the , or poker, tostir up the slumbering fire, whenbang! went the egg, which waslying hidden in the ashes, andburned the monkey's arm. Sur-

and alarmed he


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his arm into the pickle-tub in thekitchen to relieve the pain of the

burn. Then the bee which washidden near the tub stung himsharply k *# in his facealready wet with

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Withoutwaiting to brush


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off the bee and howling bitterly,he rushed for the back door:but just then some sea-weed en-

tangled his legs and made himslip. Then, down came the pound-er tumbling on him from a shelf,and the mortar too came rollingdown on him from the roof of

the pouch, and broke his backand so weakened him that he

unable to rise up. Then


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out came the crabs in a crowdand brandishling on high their

pinchers they pinchedthe monkey

to pieces.


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