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Updated: May 23, 2025
Pusong and Amo-Mongo went out to the hacienda with the intention of doing something, but when they arrived there, they found so much to do that they concluded that it would be impossible to attend to everything and so decided to do nothing. The latter, after merely looking over the estate, entered the forest, in order to visit his relatives there.
The latter seeing that his daughters' husbands were lazy fellows, determined to make them useful, so he sent Pusong and Amo-Mongo out to take charge of his estates in the country, while to Singalong he gave the oversight of the servants who worked in the kitchen of the palace.
The hour agreed upon struck, and the captain of the vessel handed an orange to Juan and said: "Mr. Pusong, you may tell us how many seeds this orange contains." Pusong took the orange and smelled it. Then he opened his book and after a while said: "This orange you have presented me with contains but one seed." The orange was cut and but the one seed found in it, so Pusong was paid the money.
Next morning the chief ordered his soldiers to take the cage with the prisoner to the sea and submerge it in the water. Tabloc-laui, on seeing the soldiers coming toward him, thought they would make inquiries of him as Pusong had said. "I am ready now," he said, "I am ready to be the princess's husband." "Is this crazy fellow raving?" asked the soldiers.
After a while a tree sprang up just where Head had sunk, and in a short time it bore large, round fruit, almost as large as a child's head. This is the origin of the orange-tree. Juan Pusong. The Visayans tell many stories which have as their hero Juan Pusong, or Tricky John.
As the name implies, he is represented as being deceitful and dishonest, sometimes very cunning, and, in some of the stories told of him, endowed with miraculous power. The stories are very simple and of not very great excellence. The few which follow will serve as samples of the narratives told of this popular hero. I. Juan Pusong was a lazy boy.
"We are ordered to take you and submerge you in the sea." "But," objected Tabloc-laui, "I am ready now to marry the chief's daughter." He was carried to the sea and plunged into the water, in spite of his crying, "I am not Pusong! I am Tabloc-laui!" The next week the chief was in his boat, going from one fish-trap to another, to inspect them. Pusong swam out to the boat.
So his father went to the place where Juan said the cows were and found them. Afterwards it was discovered that Juan could not read even his own name, so his father beat him for the trick he had played. IV. Pusong and Tabloc-laui. Pusong had transgressed the law, and was for this reason put into a cage to be in a short time submerged with it into the sea.
Pusong asked for a day's time. That night he swam out to the vessel, and, hidden in the water under the ship's stern, listened to the conversation of the crew. Luckily they were talking about this very matter of the oranges, and one of them inquired of the captain what kind of oranges he had.
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