The Monkey and the Crocodile

by Arthur W. Ryder, 1925

A monkey in a rose-apple tree befriends a crocodile, until the crocodile's wife demands the monkey's heart. Far out at sea, the quick-witted monkey has only one way home: a clever lie about where he keeps it. From the Panchatantra, in Arthur W. Ryder's 1925 translation.

On the shore of the sea was a great rose-apple tree that was never without fruit.
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On the shore of the sea was a great rose-apple tree that was never without fruit.

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