. Tales of the Punjab : told by the people . lready married, butthat his brother the King would gladly make her hiswife. So there were immense rejoicings, but the Scavenger-king was put to death, as he very well deserved. THE JACKAL AND THE IGUANA NE moonlight night, a miser-able, half-starved jackal,skulking through the village,found a worn-out pair ofshoes in the gutter. Theywere too tough for him toeat, so, determined to makesome use of them, he strungthem to his ears like earrings,and, going down to the edgeof the pond, gathered all theold bones he could find to-gether, and built a platfor
. Tales of the Punjab : told by the people . lready married, butthat his brother the King would gladly make her hiswife. So there were immense rejoicings, but the Scavenger-king was put to death, as he very well deserved. THE JACKAL AND THE IGUANA NE moonlight night, a miser-able, half-starved jackal,skulking through the village,found a worn-out pair ofshoes in the gutter. Theywere too tough for him toeat, so, determined to makesome use of them, he strungthem to his ears like earrings,and, going down to the edgeof the pond, gathered all theold bones he could find to-gether, and built a platformwith them, plastering it overwith mud. On this he sat in a dignified attitude, and whenany animal came to the pond to drink, he cried outin a loud voice, Hi! stop ! You must not taste adrop till you have done homage to me. So repeatthese verses, which I have composed in honour of theoccasion :— Silver is his dais, plastered oer with gold ;In his ears are jewels,—some prince I must behold ! Now, as most of the animals were very THE JACKAL AND THE IGUANA 145 and in a great hurry to drink, they did not careto dispute the matter, but gabbled off the wordswithout a second thought. Even the royal tiger,treating it as a jest, repeated the jackals rhyme, inconsequence of which the latter became quite cock-a-
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