The Jackal says, "I looked whether in this country the females are
in excess or the males are in excess."
The King asked, "By the account which thou knowest, are the females
in excess or the males in excess?"
The Jackal said, "So far as I can perceive, the females are in excess
in this country."
Then the King said that men are in excess. Having said it the King
said, "I myself having gone home and looked at the books, if males
are in excess I shall give thee a good punishment."
The King having come home and looked at the books, it appeared that the
males were in excess. Thereupon the King called the Jackal, and said,
"Bola, males are in excess."
Then the Jackal says, "No, O Lord, Your Majesty; they are not as
many as the females. Having also put down to the female account
the males who hearken to the things that females say, after they
counted them the females would be in excess." Then the Jackal said,
"Are the animals able to build tanks? How shall they carry the earth?"
Thereupon the King having considered it, and having said, "Wild
animals, wild animals, you are to go to the midst of the forest,"
came home.