-Fearing the wild
beasts, it sat down beside a cave where were footsteps of a Lion--A
Jackal comes up--"Ram, Ram, grandfather! I have found food after many
days." "Ram, Ram, grandson, I was told to sit here by the owner of these
footprints."--"A Lion! if I eat you, he will eat my cubs"--He goes--A
Wolf comes, and the same thing happens--The Lion comes--Says the Goat,
"By the influence of your footprints I have been safe; beasts came to
devour me, and I became your man: they fled." "If you have called
yourself my man I will not eat you"--Lion finds an Elephant: "I have a
lame Goat; let him go on your back and eat the young leaves as you
graze"--He agrees, and the Goat says, "Khoj pakar liyo baran ko hasti
mili hai ai gaj mastak achchhi charhi ajaya kopal khaya" ("By betaking
myself to the footprints of the great, I have got an Elephant")--Mounting
on the Elephant's head, the Goat feeds well on new leaves.

15.--The Cat and the Sparrows

Told by TULSI RAM, Brahman, of Sadabad, Mathura
district. For the _motif_, compare _J[=a]taka_,
No. 333 (translation, vol. iii. p. 71).

16.--The Foolish Fish

Told by HARI CHAND or HEM CHANDI, teacher of a
village school, Mirzapur district. A variant of
the same, told by SHEO-DAN, Chamar, Chankiya,
Mirzapur district.

Banya sees Tiger sunk in the mud--Tiger tries him to release him--Swears
he will not hurt him or his family--Banya saves him--Says Tiger, "Shall
I eat you or your ox?"--Banya protests--Tiger: "It is the way of my
family"--Banya says, "Let the Jackal arbitrate"--Jackal asks to see the
place the Tiger was in--Then to be shown exactly how he was--The Tiger
goes in again, and the Jackal advises the man to go home and leave him.

17.--The Clever Goat

Recorded by MATA DIN, assistant teacher, Pili-Bhit district.

18.--A Crow is a Crow for Ever

Told and recorded by SAHIB RAM, Brahman, of Nardauli,
Etah district.

The verse is:--

Kag parhae pinjra: parhi gaye charon Ved:
Jab sudhi ai kutum ki rahe dhed ke dhed.

"I kept my crow in a cage, and taught him all four Vedas;
When he thought of his family, he became filthy as ever."

19.--The Grateful Goat

Told by BIKKU MISRA, Brahman, Achhnera village, Agra district.

Butcher buys a Goat--"Spare my life, and I will repay you"--He spares
him--T