When the man tried to put the creeper on the Monkey’s neck the Monkey got up. “Don’t put the creeper on my neck,” he said.
Having gone near the Prince he said, “After I was dead [apparently], you were taking me without having put me in a coffin. Why do you [arrange to] drag me, having put a creeper on my neck? Don’t take even so much trouble.”
Having said this, the Monkey went off to the midst of the forest, and died.
Tom-Tom Beater. North-western Province.
Of course, this is an Eastern form of Puss-in-Boots.
In Folk-Tales of Bengal (Day), p. 226 ff., there is an account of a clever match-making Jackal which induced a King to marry his daughter to a weaver.