- Introduction
- Aponibolinayen
and the Sun
- Aponibolinayen
- Gawigawen
of Adasen
- The
Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Above
- The
Story of Dumalawi
- The
Story of Kanag
- The
Story of the Tikgi
- The
Story of Sayen
- The
Sun and the Moon
- How
the Tinguian Learned to Plant
- Magsawi
- The
Tree with the Agate Beads
- The
Striped Blanket
- The
Alan and the Hunters
- Man
and the Alan
- Sogsogot
- The
Mistaken Gifts
- The
Boy Who Became a Stone
- The
Turtle and the Lizard
- The
Man with the Cocoanuts
- The
Carabao and the Shell
- The
Alligator's Fruit
- Dogedog
The
Man with the Cocoanuts
(Tinguian)
ONE day a man who had been to gather his cocoanuts loaded his horse heavily with the fruit. On the way home he met a boy whom he asked how long it would take to reach the house.
"If you go slowly," said the boy, looking at the load on the horse, "you will arrive very soon; but if you go fast, it will take you all day."
The man could not believe this strange speech, so he hurried his horse. But the cocoanuts fell off and he had to stop to pick them up. Then he hurried his horse all the more to make up for lost time, but the cocoanuts fell off again. Many times he did this, and it was night when he reached home. [90]
Cole,
Mabel Cook. Philippine Folk Tales. London:
Curtis Brown,
1916.
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Notes
[90] Here we have a proverbial
tale, one in which the Tinguian expresses the idea, "Haste makes
waste."
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