Excerpt from Fables Folk-Tales From an Eastern Forest

Rice-fields at the foot of Bukit Perak or Perak (i.e. Silver) Mountain, in the interior of Kedah, Malay Peninsula; "But presently he dragged the Shark up on to the dry beach, and made butcher's-meat of him"; "Presently the Otter returned home,"... and "saw that his children had been killed"; "And presently he looked out and bit through the stalk of the coconut so that it fell into the river"; "On reaching the trap, he requested the Tiger to 'Step inside'"; "Rimau being startled leaped backwards and fell into the river, where he was himself devoured by the Crocodile according to his compact"; "On hearing this, the Tiger sprang into the river to attack his own shadow, and was drowned immediately"

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