Tale

 1 PbNote|       The tale of the Banyan Deer, which offered its life
 2 Rabbit|      could go.~They passed a Deer, calling out to him that
 3 Rabbit|     was all breaking up. The Deer then ran with them.~The
 4 Rabbit|      then ran with them.~The Deer called to a Fox to come
 5 Rabbit|  told me about it," said the Deer.~One after another of the
 6 Deer  |               XII~THE BANYAN DEER~THERE was once a Deer the
 7 Deer  | BANYAN DEER~THERE was once a Deer the color of gold. His eyes
 8 Deer  |  herd of five hundred Banyan Deer. Near by lived another herd
 9 Deer  |     by lived another herd of Deer, called the Monkey Deer.
10 Deer  |      Deer, called the Monkey Deer. They, too, had a king.~
11 Deer  |      was fond of hunting the Deer and eating deer meat. He
12 Deer  |  hunting the Deer and eating deer meat. He did not like to
13 Deer  |    make a park and drive the Deer into it. Then the king could
14 Deer  |   and provided water for the Deer, built a fence all around
15 Deer  |      around it and drove the Deer into it.~Then they shut
16 Deer  |     by he could find all the Deer he wanted.~The king went
17 Deer  |  went at once to look at the Deer. First he saw there the
18 Deer  |   First he saw there the two Deer kings, and granted them
19 Deer  |    king would go to hunt the Deer, sometimes his cook would
20 Deer  |    go. As soon as any of the Deer saw them they would shake
21 Deer  |       The King of the Banyan Deer sent for the King of the
22 Deer  |   for the King of the Monkey Deer and said, "Friend, many
23 Deer  |   said, "Friend, many of the Deer are being killed. Many are
24 Deer  |  from your herd go up. Fewer Deer will be lost this way."~
25 Deer  |   lost this way."~The Monkey Deer agreed. Each day the Deer
26 Deer  |    Deer agreed. Each day the Deer whose turn it was would
27 Deer  |     the lot fell to a mother Deer who had a young baby. She
28 Deer  |  said, "O King of the Monkey Deer, let the turn pass me by
29 Deer  |    to the King of the Banyan Deer and asked him to save her.~"
30 Deer  | found the King of the Banyan Deer lying with his head on the
31 Deer  |    this.~"King of the Banyan Deer! did I not grant you your
32 Deer  |  said the King of the Banyan Deer, "a mother came with her
33 Deer  | myself."~"King of the Banyan Deer! I never saw such kindness
34 Deer  |     will I hunt any more the Deer in either park or forest." ~