` Change yourself into any shape you like , ' said he , ` and I will undertake to know you . I will go and wait on the bridge which leads over the river to the village , and you shall transform yourself into anything you please , but I will know you through any disguise . ' The little tanuki agreed , and went down the road which his father had pointed out . But instead of transforming himself into a different shape , he just hid himself in a corner of the bridge , where he could see without being seen . He had not been there long when his father arrived and took up his place near the middle of the bridge , and soon after the king came by , followed by a troop of guards and all his court . ` Ah ! he thinks that now he has changed himself into a king I shall not know him , ' thought the old tanuki , and as the king passed in his splendid carriage , borne by his servants , he jumped upon it crying : ' I have won my wager ; you can not deceive me . ' But in reality it was he who had deceived himself . The soldiers , conceiving that their king was being attacked , seized the tanuki by the legs and flung him over into the river , and the water closed over him . And the little tanoki saw it all , and rejoiced that his mother 's death had been avenged . Then he went back to the forest , and if he has not found it too lonely , he is probably living there still . -LSB- From Japanische Mahrchen . -RSB- The Crab And The Monkey There was once a crab who lived in a hole on the shady side of a mountain . She was a very good housewife , and so careful and industrious that there was no creature in the whole country whose hole was so neat and clean as hers , and she took great pride in it . One day she saw lying near the mouth of her hole a handful of cooked rice which some pilgrim must have let fall when he was stopping to eat his dinner . Delighted at this discovery , she hastened to the spot , and was carrying the rice back to her hole when a monkey , who lived in some trees near by , came down to see what the crab was doing . His eyes shone at the sight of the rice , for it was his favourite food , and like the sly fellow he was , he proposed a bargain to the crab . She was to give him half the rice in exchange for the kernel of a sweet red kaki fruit which he had just eaten . He half expected that the crab would laugh in his face at this impudent proposal , but instead of doing so she only looked at him for a moment with her head on one side and then said that she would agree to the exchange . So the monkey went off with his rice , and the crab returned to her hole with the kernel .
For some time the crab saw no more of the monkey , who had gone XXXXX pay a visit on the sunny side of the mountain ; but one morning he happened to pass by her hole , and found her sitting under the shadow of a beautiful kaki tree .
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