A husband and wife make a promise never to abandon the coffin of whoever dies first. The wife dies first and the husband resuscitates her with a magic apple given by a tiger. But the wife betrays her husband with a sea captain and they frame him and kill him. His friend resuscitates him with the apple and he in turn resuscitates a princess, and is made Governor of the kingdom. He has his revenge on the sea captain and his wife when they come to port and he tells his story in a dinner given for them.