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Indian stories for children from panchatantra
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The greedy Jakal
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Once upon a time there lived a lazy jackal. Also in the hills there
lived a hillman and a wild boar. Once when the hillman went to hunt, he saw the
wold boar. He took a sharp aim with his arrow and stuck the boar. But the boar
was only injured and it attacked the hillman and he died on the spot. But the
boar also collapsed due to the injury and died.
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The jackal happened to pass the site of both the dead bodies, and the
jackal decided to eat them slowly. But he was excessively greedy and first
wanted to eat the bowstring, before the other bodies. As he tried to eat the
bowstring which was tightly attached to the bow, it snapped and the end of the
string pierced the roof of its mouth and it stuck a big injury to the jackal and
the jackal died on the spot.
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MORAL: Too much of greed is harmful.
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