al's "Romantic Legend
of Sakya Buddha" (London, 1875), pp. 231-234, where a dragon takes
the place of the crocodile; Swahili, Steere, p. i, where, instead
of a crocodile, we have a shark (so also Bateman, No. I); Japanese,
W. E. Griffis's "Japanese Fairy World," p. 144, where the sea-animal
is a jelly-fish. An interesting Russian variant, in which a fox takes
the place of the monkey, is printed in the Cambridge Jataka, 2 : 110.

Once upon a time the king of the fishes was wanting in wisdom. His
advisers told him that, once he could get the heart of a fox, he
would become wise. So he sent a deputation consisting of the great
magnates of the sea,--whales and others. "Our king wants your advice
on some state affairs." The fox, flattered, consented. A whale took
him on his back. On the way the waves beat upon him. At last he asked
what they really wanted. They said what their king really wanted
was to eat his heart, by which he hoped to become clever. He said,
"Why didn't you tell me that before? I would gladly sacrifice my life
for such a worthy object. But we foxes always leave our hearts at
home. Take me back, and I'll fetch it. Otherwise I'm sure your king
will be angry." So they took him back. As soon as he got near to the
shore, he leaped on land, and cried, "Ah, you fools! Have you ever
heard of an animal not carrying his heart with him?" and ran off. The
fish had to return empty.

A reminiscence of this incident is also found in Steel-Temple, No. XXI,
"The Jackal and the Partridge," where a partridge induces a crocodile
to carry her and the jackal across a river, and en route suggests
that he should upset the jackal, but at last dissuades him by saying
that the jackal had left his life behind him on the other shore.

Related to our Zambal story are two modern Indian folk-tales in
which a jackal is substituted for the monkey (this substitution is
analogous to the Indian substitution of the jackal for the Philippines
monkey in the "Puss-in-Boots" cycle). In the first of these--Frere,
No. XXIV, "The Alligator and the Jackal"--we have the incident of
the house answering when the owner calls. In Steel-Temple, No. XXXI,
"The Jackal and the Crocodile," the jackal makes love to the crocodile,
and induces her, under promise of marriage, to swim him across a stream
to some fruit he wants to eat. When she has brought him back, he says
that he thinks it may be a long time before he can make arrangements
for the wedding.