Note 2 — The Jackal and the Leopard

Part of this story was given in The Orientalist, vol. iv, p. 30. A Jackal that had followed a Leopard which was trying to get at a man who had taken refuge in a corn store, advised it to insert its tail through a gap in the doorway, and wave it about. When it did so, the Jackal said in the Peraelibāsa,2 which the Leopard did not understand, Kaṭu anuwē potun deṭak, which when transposed becomes aṭu kanuwē detun poṭak, “Two or three twists round the pillar of the corn store.” The man acted as advised, and held the tail fast. When some men came up they killed the Leopard.