he at last gave in and consented to the monkey's proposal, and the exchange was made. the greedy monkey soon gobbled up the dumpling, and with great reluctance gave up the persimmon-seed to the crab. he would have liked to keep that too, but he was afraid of making the crab angry and of being pinched by his sharp scissor-like claws. they then separated, the monkey going home to his forest trees and the crab to his stones along the river-side. as soon as the crab reached home he put the persimmon-seed in the ground as the monkey had told him.