THE JACKAL IN THE ELEPHANT’S FOOTPRINTS. [179]

An elephant came long ago to the Himalayas to drink water. In its track

followed a jackal, which saw the elephant’s footprints, and began to

measure its own stride with them.

“These footprints are mine,” it said to itself.

Then springing forwards it set its foot in one of the footprints, and

tripped over a broken piece of wood. [180]

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