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by a stratagem rendered innocuous to the sheep, but not in the same way as in Mal. and Jav.
Bhaïh 8. The plandōʾ, the frog, the iguana, the carrion, the dog, the tiger, the two buffaloes, the two tigers, the elephant and the human beings.
Bhaïh 9. The plandōʾ, the smith, the sikin (Achehnese long knife or sword), the fisherman and the eel (leujeu).
Bhaïh 10. Lawsuit between the rich and the poor as to the price of the savours of the former's kitchen, in which suit the plandōʾ gives judgment. This tale is one of those spoken of on p. 159 above, which do not-really belong to the mouse-deer series.
Bhaïh 11. The cultivator who goes a-fishing. The imprisoned snake, the plandōʾ, the whale, the cocoanut monkeys and their king. Part similar to Jav.
Bhaïh 12. The téʾ-téʾ birds (Batavia: kějit), Sulòyman (Solomon), the plandōʾ, the herd of oxen and the black bull.
Bhaïh 13. The plandōʾ, the dogs, and the bakòh-bird.
Bhaïh 14. (Continuation of 13). The plandōʾ, the kuëʾ-bird, the fishes known as the meudabah and the thōʾ.
Bhaïh 15. The plandōʾ, the turtle and the tiger.
Bhaïh 16. The plandōʾ and the bridge of crocodiles. (Similar in Jav.).
Bhaïh 17. The plandōʾ, the two oxen, the tiger and the crocodiles.
Bhaïh 18. (Continuation of 17). The two oxen, the tiger and his dream. Sulòyman, the plandōʾ and his dream, the sugar-mill.
Bhaïh 19. Alliance of all the beasts under the tiger as king and the plandōʾ as his deputy. The tiger deceived by the plandōʾ. This resembles in its main features the story we have numbered 7 in the Kisah Hiweuën or Nasruan adé (LIV).
Bhaïh 20. The elephant in the well (quite different from its namesake in Jav.); he is afterwards devoured by crocodiles in the river.
Bhaïh 21. All the animals fish with seines under direction of the plandōʾ, the himbèës (a kind of ape) serve as sentries.
Bhaïh 22. Continuation of 21. The geureuda or griffin (which here plays the part of the buta or gěrgasi in Jav. and Mal.), the tiger, the bear, the elephant and the plandōʾ (the same in Jav. and Mal.).
Bhaïh 23. All the beasts converted to Islam by the plandōʾ, gathered together in the mosque and cheated by him.
Bhaïh 24. The plandōʾ cheats Nabi Sulòyman (Solomon) over the chopping of wood.
