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THE GRATEFUL BEASTS
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approaching nearer and nearer, and calling out to Ferko he said, ‘Enough, enough, we don’t want any more.’


Ferko leads the wolves on.


But the wolf on whose back Ferko sat, said to its rider, ‘Go on! go on!’ and at the same moment many more wolves ran up the hill, howling horribly and showing their white teeth.

The King in his terror called out, ‘Stop a moment; I will give you half my kingdom if you will drive all the wolves away.’ But Ferko pretended not to hear, and drove some more thousands before him, so that everyone quaked with horror and fear.