Atondido Stories
"Tango ti tar, tango ti tar,
The tiger's bones are in my guitar.
Tee hee, Tee hee."
The tiger was angrier than ever. He waited and waited for
the monkey to come out of the hole in the ground but the mon-
key did not come. He had discovered another way out and once
more from the high tree tops he sang down to the waiting tiger:
"Tango ti tar, tango ti tar,
The tiger's bones are in my guitar.
Tee hee, Tee hee."
There had been a great drought in the land and there was on-
ly one watering place where the beasts could drink. The tiger
knew that the monkey would have to go there when he was
thirsty so he decided to wait for him and catch him when he
came to drink.
When the monkey went to the watering place to get a drink
he found the tiger there waiting for him. He ran away as fast as
the wind for he was really very much afraid of the tiger.
He waited and waited until he thought he should die of thirst,
but the tiger did not go away from the watering place for a sin-
gle minute. At last the monkey thought of a trick by which he
would be able to get a drink.
He lay down by the side of the pathway as if he were dead.
After a while an old woman came along the path carrying a dish
of honey in a basket upon her head. She saw the monkey lying
there by the path and, thinking that he was dead, she picked him
up and put him into the basket with the dish of honey. When the
monkey saw that it was honey in the dish he was very happy.
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