The Greedy Jackal
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- Full of rage, the boar, with his sharp tusk that gleamed like the young moon’s crescent,ripped up the belly of the hunter, that he fell lifeless to earth. But the boar too yieldedhis life, from the smarting wound of the arrow.
- In a certain forest lived a savage tribesman, who, on a day, set out a-hunting. And ashe went he met a mighty boar, as big as the peak of Mount Anjana. Straightway,drawing his bow till the string touched his ear, he let fly a keen arrow and hit the boar.
- Meantime a jackal, for whom Fate had ordained a speedy death, roaming for hungerhither and yon, came to the spot. Delighted at the sight of the boar and the hunter, hebethought him: “Ah! Fate is kind to me in giving me this unexpected food.
- Now I’ll manage it so with these carcasses that I shall get a living off of them for manydays. And to begin withal, I’ll eat the sinew which forms the bowstring.
- Making up his mind in this way, he took the end of the bow in his mouth, and began tognaw the sinew. But as soon as his teeth cut through the string, the bow tore through hispalate, and came out of his head like a top-knot, and he gave up the ghost.
- Excessive greed should ne’er be cherished.Have greed—but keep it moderate.The all too greedy jackal perished,A wooden top-knot on his pate.
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