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THE JADE STORY BOOK
together. He is sure to join in as he used to do, for———
"'Hard it is to conquer nature: if a dog were made a king,
Mid the coronation trumpets, he would gnaw his sandal-string.'
"And when he yells, the lions and tigers will know him to be a jackal, and fall upon him."
They did just what the wise old beast had suggested, and the thing befell exactly as he said it would. And so ended the reign of the dyed jackal.
