not enter, for had they not been told that whatever the noise,
they must not come in? So they sat outside, waiting and
wondering; and at last all grew still and quiet, and remained so
for such a long time that they determined to enter and see if all
was well. No sooner had they opened the door leading into the
courtyard than they were nearly upset by a huge monkey that came
leaping straight to the doorway and escaped past them into the
open fields. Then they stepped into the room, and there they saw
the jogi's body lying torn to pieces on the threshold of his
dwelling!

Very soon the story spread, as stories will, and reached the ears
of the princess and her husband, and when she knew that her enemy
was dead she made her peace with her father.

From Major Campbell, Feroshepore.






The Heart of a Monkey




A long time ago a little town made up of a collection of low huts
stood in a tiny green valley at the foot of a cliff. Of course
the people had taken great care to build their houses out of