Le livre de fée japonais . une succursale de l'empêcher d'fallingoff dans ses rêves. Il fut bientôt réveillé, cependant, quand heheard appelle lui-même, et très à l'écoute de ce que l'crabtold lui. Lorsqu'il a entendu que la semence qu'il avait de long agoexchanged pour une boulette de riz était devenu un arbre et wasnow portant de bons fruits, il était heureux, il a tout de suite pour deviseda plan rusé qui lui donne toutes les kakis forhimself. Il a consenti à aller avec le crabe pour ramasser les fruits pour lui.Quand ils ont tous deux atteint l'endroit, le singe était astonishedto voir quel beau arbre avait jailli de la semence, et

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The Japanese fairy book . a branch to prevent him from fallingoff in his dreams. He was soon wide awake, however, when heheard himself called, and eagerly listening to what the crabtold him. When he heard that the seed which he had long agoexchanged for a rice-dumpling had grown into a tree and wasnow bearing good fruit, he was delighted, for he at once deviseda cunning plan which would give him all the persimmons forhimself. He consented to go with the crab to pick the fruit for him.When they both reached the spot, the monkey was astonishedto see what a fine tree had sprung from the seed, and with whata number of ripe persimmons the branches were loaded. He quickly climbed the tree and began to pluck and eat, asfast as he could, one persimmon after another. Each time hechose the best and ripest he could find, and went on eating tillhe could eat no more. Not one would he give to the poorhungry crab waiting below, and when he had finished therewas little but the hard, unripe fruit left. 206 Japanese Fairy Book.. The Monkey began to pluck and eat as fast as he could. The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab. 207 You can imagine the feelings of the poor crab after waitingpatiently, for so long as he had done, for the tree to grow andthe fruit to ripen, when he saw the monkey devouring all thegood persimmons. He was so disappointed that he ran roundand round the tree calling to the monkey to remember his promise.The monkey at first took no notice of the crabs complaints, but at last he picked out the hardest, greenest persimmon hecould find and aimed it at the crabs head. The persimmonis as hard as stone when it is unripe. The monkeys missilestruck home and the crab was sorely hurt by the blow. Againand again, as fast as he could pick them, the monkey pulled oftthe hard persimmons and threw them at the defenceless crabtill he dropped dead, covered with wounds all over his body.There he lay a pitiful sight at the foot of the tree he hadhimself planted. When the wicked monke

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