The Lizard and the Leopard

At a village there are a Leopard and a Lizard. [138] The Lizard and Leopard cut a chena, it is said. Afterwards both having quarrelled they divided the chena between them. In the part which the Lizard got he planted Kaekiri creepers, which became large; in the part which the Leopard got the Kaekiri died, and he abandoned it.

ある村に豹と蜥蜴 [138] がいる。蜥蜴と豹が焼畑を切り拓いたという。そのあと二匹は言い争って、焼畑を二つに分けた。蜥蜴の取った分にはカエキリの蔓を植えて大きくなった。豹の取った分ではカエキリが枯れ、豹はそれを捨てた。

Then the Leopard ate the Kaekiri fruit in the Lizard's chena, and after eating rubbed himself on his hams over the fruits that were on the ground. So the Lizard gave some Kaekiri fruits to the smith, and having got a small knife made took it away. After getting it made, the Lizard ran it through some plucked Kaekiri fruits [and left it there].

すると豹は蜥蜴の焼畑のカエキリの実を食べ、食べてから、地面にある実の上に尻をこすりつけた。そこで蜥蜴は鍛冶屋にカエキリの実をいくつかやって、小刀を一本こしらえてもらって持ち帰った。こしらえてもらうと、蜥蜴はもいだカエキリの実に小刀を通しておい〔てそこに置い〕た。

Afterwards the Leopard came to eat Kaekiri. Having eaten, he rubbed himself on the plucked Kaekiri fruits. Then the knife pierced him. Over this matter the Leopard and Lizard quarrelled. Afterwards the Leopard, having eaten cattle flesh, became strong again.

そのあと豹がカエキリを食べに来た。食べてから、もいであるカエキリの実に体をこすりつけた。すると小刀が豹を刺した。このことで豹と蜥蜴は言い争った。そのあと豹は牛の肉を食べて、また力を取り戻した。

One day the Leopard told the Lizard that the Gamarala had a chena. The Lizard said, "Ade! Where is it? Let me look at it." Having gone with him to it, the Leopard shows him the fruits and says, "Ade! Lizard, eat thou there. Lizard, eat thou here." The Gamarala having heard it and having gone home, began to laugh. The Gama-Mahage (his wife) asked, "What are you laughing at?" The Gamarala said, "A Leopard sitting in the chena was saying and saying to a Lizard, 'Eat thou there, Lizard. Eat thou here, Lizard.'"

ある日、豹は蜥蜴に、ガマラーラ(村長)が焼畑を持っていると教えた。蜥蜴は言った。「アデ! どこだ? 見せてくれ」。いっしょに行って、豹は実を見せながら言う。「アデ! 蜥蜴よ、そこを食え。蜥蜴よ、ここを食え」。ガマラーラはそれを聞いて家に帰り、笑いだした。ガマ・マハゲ(その妻)が尋ねた。「何を笑っているのです?」 ガマラーラは言った。「焼畑に坐った豹が、蜥蜴に『そこを食え、蜥蜴。ここを食え、蜥蜴』と言いに言っていたのだ」

Afterwards, when the Lizard was in the chena the Leopard goes to the house of the Gamarala and says, "Gamarala, see! The Lizard is eating thy chena." Then the Gamarala scolded him and said, "I heard thee telling the Lizard, 'Eat thou there, Lizard. Eat thou here, Lizard.'"

そのあと、蜥蜴が焼畑にいるとき、豹はガマラーラの家へ行って言う。「ガマラーラどの、ごらんなさい! 蜥蜴があなたの焼畑を食っています」。するとガマラーラは叱って言った。「おまえが蜥蜴に『そこを食え、蜥蜴。ここを食え、蜥蜴』と言っていたのを聞いたぞ」

Then the Leopard went to the Lizard, and said, "Friend, take thou my piece of chena, and give me thy piece of chena." Because the Lizard was afraid he said, "It is good," and they exchanged chenas. The Lizard planted the abandoned piece in a thorough manner. The Leopard ate the fruits in the part which he got, until they were finished.

すると豹は蜥蜴のところへ行って言った。「友よ、おまえがわたしの焼畑の分を取って、おまえの焼畑の分をわたしにくれ」。蜥蜴は怖かったので「それがよい」と言って、二匹は焼畑を取り替えた。蜥蜴は捨てられていた分を念入りに植えた。豹は自分の取った分の実を、なくなるまで食べた。

After that, the Leopard went to the Lizard again, and said, "Friend, let us exchange chenas again." The Lizard felt anger which he could not bear, but because he was afraid he said again, "It is good," to that also.

そのあと豹はまた蜥蜴のところへ行って言った。「友よ、もう一度焼畑を取り替えよう」。蜥蜴は堪えがたい怒りを覚えたが、怖かったので、それにもまた「それがよい」と言った。

Afterwards, the Lizard went to a man, and asked him to tell him a way of succeeding, so as to fight the Leopard. The man said, "When he asks you again, say you will not. The Leopard will come and quarrel with you. Then say, 'We cannot fight in that manner. You go, and after asking your mother about a means of success, return. I will go, and after asking my mother about a means of success, will return.' Having said it and come away, and having rolled in the mud and dried it, and again rolled in the mud and dried it, by rolling in the mud and doing thus you will become big. After that go to fight. The Leopard's claws will not enter your body." All this the man told the Lizard.

そのあと蜥蜴はある男のところへ行って、豹と戦って勝つ手だてを教えてくれと頼んだ。男は言った。「また頼まれたら、いやだと言え。豹は来ておまえと言い争うだろう。そのときこう言え。『そんなやり方では戦えぬ。おまえは行って母に勝つ手だてを尋ねてから戻れ。わたしも行って母に勝つ手だてを尋ねてから戻ろう』と。そう言って帰ってきて、泥に転がって乾かし、また泥に転がって乾かし、そうやって泥に転がりつづければ、おまえは大きくなる。そのあと戦いに行け。豹の爪はおまえの体に立たぬ」。これをすっかり男は蜥蜴に教えた。

Afterwards, one day the Leopard said, "Let us exchange chenas." The Lizard told him as the man said. When the Leopard went to his mother she told him to rub coconut oil over his body.

そのあと、ある日、豹は「焼畑を取り替えよう」と言った。蜥蜴は男の言ったとおりに言った。豹が母のところへ行くと、母は体に椰子油を塗れと言った。

The Lizard having gone to a mud hole, jumps into it, and climbs onto a post to dry the mud. Again it jumps into the mud and climbs onto the post. Thus, having acted in that manner he caused much mud to be smeared on his body.

蜥蜴は泥の穴へ行って、そこに跳び込み、杭に登って泥を乾かす。また泥に跳び込んで杭に登る。こうして、そのやり方で体にたっぷり泥を塗りつけた。

After that, having met each other, the Leopard and Lizard quarrelled again, and struck each other on the face. Then the Lizard springs on the Leopard's back and scratches his flesh. The Leopard jumps about, but only scratches mud off the Lizard.

そのあと二匹は出会って、豹と蜥蜴はまた言い争い、たがいの顔を打った。すると蜥蜴は豹の背に跳び乗って、その肉を掻きむしる。豹は跳ねまわるが、蜥蜴からは泥を掻き落とすだけだった。

Having fought in that way, the Leopard, becoming afraid, went away. The Lizard went and washed off the mud. The Leopard having gone and crawled under the corn store at a house, while sitting there says, "Bite thou me here, too, Lizard. Bite thou me here, too, Lizard." [139] While he was there saying it he saw a boy [near him]. Then the Leopard says, "Ade! Do not tell any one, or I will kill thee." Because of it, the boy being afraid did not tell any one.

そうやって戦って、豹は怖くなって去っていった。蜥蜴は行って泥を洗い落とした。豹はある家の米倉の下に這い込んで、そこに坐りながら言う。「ここも噛め、蜥蜴。ここも噛め、蜥蜴」 [139]。そこでそう言っていると、〔そばに〕少年がいるのが見えた。すると豹は言う。「アデ! 誰にも言うな、言えば殺すぞ」。それで少年は怖くなって誰にも言わなかった。

Afterwards the Leopard, thinking, "The boy will tell it," came while the boy [140] was asleep on the bed [in the veranda], and having crept under the bed, lifted it on his back and went off with it, in order to eat him. When the boy awoke and saw that the Leopard was going along carrying him, he caught hold of a branch and hung by it. After the Leopard, having gone a long distance, looked back the boy was not there.

そのあと豹は「あの少年は話すだろう」と思って、少年 [140] が〔縁側の〕寝台で眠っているあいだに来て、寝台の下に潜り込み、それを背に載せて、食べようと運び去った。少年が目を覚まして、豹が自分を運んでいくのを見ると、枝をつかんでそれにぶら下がった。豹はずっと行ってから振り返って見たが、少年はいなかった。

Then the Leopard came running back to seek him. Having seen that the boy was on a branch, the Leopard asked, "Art thou descending to the ground, boy? I shall eat thee."

そこで豹は探しに駆け戻ってきた。少年が枝の上にいるのを見て、豹は尋ねた。「地面に下りてくるか、小僧? 食ってやる」

The boy said, "Ade! Bola, art thou saying Bana? [141] I have no means of stretching out my hands to descend," he said.

少年は言った。「アデ! ボラ、説法 [141] でもしているつもりか? 手を伸ばして下りる術がないのだ」と言った。

"What is in thy hands?" he asked.

「手に何を持っている?」と尋ねた。

"In this hand I have small Lizard's eggs; in this other hand I have large Lizard's eggs," he said. "A sort of Lizards as big as Talipat trunks and Coconut trunks will be coming."

「この手には小さい蜥蜴の卵、こちらの手には大きい蜥蜴の卵を持っている」と少年は言った。「タリポット椰子の幹や椰子の幹ほどもある蜥蜴どもが来るぞ」

Then the Leopard, saying, "Stay thou there, boy, until I have run a little far," bounded off and ran away.

すると豹は「小僧、おれが少し遠くまで走るまで、そこにいろ」と言って、跳ねるように逃げ去った。