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Tjoepak shouts still louder to the princess to watch his triumph, while Grantang droops over his spear watching the arrogant parade. Mere is a sudden change. With a great noise of drums and cymbals Grantang leaps in the air, and in a brief and brilliant fight Tjoepak is defeated and driven off the stage. This may be the end, or a love dance may follow between Grantang and the princess. But the choice of ending does not. Always depend upon the actors. In the performance here described a love-dance was intended, but the audience rose to a man at the flight of Tjoepak, and there was nothing for it but to assume with them that the play was over.

The perfect medium for Tjoepak, as for Tjalonarang, is Wajang Koelit. Only there is it possible to render all the surprising episodes; and with entire illusion because of its entire unreality. The arrival of Grantang in the market of Daha, shriveled almost to a skeleton and hardly able to crawl, with a voice like a thin reed, is intensely moving as well as amusing. In the shadow-play Grantang is able to have a series of bodies corresponding to his physical condition at the moment. He is an emaciated skeleton when first he emerges from the forest; a fishbone hung with seaweed when he is rescued from the sea; a round baby-boy in a frilled frock after he has been fattened by the fisherman; and finally the beautiful hero, with curving head-dress and all the equipment of a shadow-play prince.

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