but rather that the ass should be cut open and the moon he had swallowed
taken out of him, which, being cordially approved by the others, was
done accordingly.

[11] This is also one of the Fables of Marie de France (thirteenth
century).

[12] A complete translation of the _Kathá Sarit Ságara_, by
Professor C.H. Tawney, with notes of variants, which exhibit his wide
acquaintance with the popular fictions of all lands, has been recently
published at Calcutta (London agents, Messrs. Trübner and Co.), a work
which must prove invaluable to every English student of comparative
folk-lore.

[13] Siva's paradise, according to Hindu mythology, is on Mount Kailása,
in the Himályas, north of Mánasa.

[14] Tawney's translation, which is used throughout this work.



CHAPTER III.

GOTHAMITE DROLLERIES (_continued_).


The Schildburgers, it has been already remarked, are the Gothamites of
Germany, and the stories of their stupidity, after being orally current
for years among the people, were collected near the close of the
sixteenth century, the earliest known edition being that of 1597. In a