For a long time Si Kabayan and his father-in-law had entertained the idea of making a deer trap, but nothing had ever come of their intention. One day Kabayan called his father-in-law.“Come, Pa,” he said. “Let’s dig a ditch. A deer is sure to fall into it, and then we’ll slaughter it together.”“No,” replied Kabayan’s father-in-law. “You dig the ditch, Kabayan. I’d rather snare a bird.”“Good,” said Kabayan. ” But when I catch my deer, I won’t give you any part of it.”“Never mind,” replied the father-in-law. “When I snare my bird, you get no part of it either.”The next very morning, very, very early. Kabayan’s father-in-law went outside to have a look at the trap he had set up. It was just as he had left it the night before. He walked over to Kabayan’s trap and there he saw a fine, large deer. He looked about him stealthily and seeing no one, he tied a rope around the deer’s neck, which he then fastened to his own trap. He quickly returned to the house and called his son-in-law.“Kabayan, Kabayan, wake up!” he shouted. “Let’s go out and see whether there’s anything in our traps.”.Kabayan yawned and streched and joinde his father-in-law.“Alhamdullillah ! The Lord be praised!” exclaimed Kabayan’s father-in-law. “Look at that!” He pointed to the deer in his trap.Si Kabayan walked away without saying a word.A little later, when Si Kabayan’s wife called her father and husband for breakfast. Kabayan did not appear. Kabayan’s wife was worried. “Where is he?” she asked her father. They waited , but he did not come. Kabayan’s wife began to cry.“He’s been eaten by a tiger,” she sobbed, “or choked bye a devil in the forest – or kidnapped!”Her father tried to console her and said he would go out immediately to search for Kabayan.It was not long before he found him, sitting by the bank of a river in an attitude of meditation, watching the water flow by.“Kabayan !” called his father-in-law. “What are you doing ? Why didn’t you come to breakfast?”“Look, Pa!” said Kabayan, glancing up at his father-in-law, but leaving his question unanswered.“Look at this water. If this isn’t strangest thing! …….”“What is the matter ?”“Just look! The river is flowing upstream !”“Ah, Kabayan impossible, Kabayan ! Water doesn’t flow upstream. It has to flow downstream !”“Why does it have to ?” said Kabayan, “if a deer can be caught in a bird snare ?”Kabayan father-in-law looked very sheepish. He admitted that he had deceived Kabayan and he returned the deer to his son-in-law. But Kabayan took revenge, and when the deer was slaughtered his father-in-law got nothing but its bones.
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