21. How not to hit an insect 124 _Better an enemy with sense than a friend without it_ A. Boy and mosquito Jā. 44: i. 246 B. Girl and fly Jā. 45: i. 248 22. Monkey-gardeners 129 _Misdirected effort spells failure_ A. One-stanza version Jā. 46: i. 249 B. Three-stanza version Jā. 268: ii. 345 23. Two dicers 135 _Take care!_ A. Canonical version D. ii. 348 B. Uncanonical version Jā. 91: i. 379 24. Two caravan-leaders 138 _Be prudent!_ A. Canonical version D. ii. 342 B. Uncanonical version Jā. 1: i. 95 25. Boar and lion Kathāsaritsāgara, 72 154 _Eat me, O lion!_ 26. Fairy-prince and griffin Kathāsaritsāgara, 22 and 90 157 _Eat me, O griffin!_ Glossary 169 _List of Illustrations._ _Story_ _Facing_ 1. The grateful elephant _Title-page_ _Then the elephant with his trunk caressed the Future Buddha and lifted him up_ 2. Grateful animals and ungrateful man 12 _Thus did those four persons travel together, swept along by the river_ 3. Elephant and ungrateful forester 22 _The man actually cut off his two principal tusks!_ 7. Antelope, woodpecker, tortoise, and hunter 50 _At that moment the tortoise had chewed all of the strips except just one strap_ 9. A Buddhist Tar-baby 60 _Then he hit him with a spear_ 11. The anger-eating ogre 72 “_Here, Sire, a certain ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, sits in your seat_” 14. King and boar 86 _He bit the gem, and by its magical power rose into the air_ 15. A Buddhist Henny-Penny 96 _So taking the little hare on his back, he sprang forward with the speed of a lion_ 17. Dragon Jewel-neck 104 _Every day Jewel-neck the dragon-king would encircle him with his coils_ 22. Monkey-gardeners 130 “_When you water the young trees, pull them up by the roots, every one_” _Introduction._