Tale

 1 Crocod|  water. ~When the Crocodile came up, the Monkey sputtered
 2 Mercha|     Brass for sale." People came out to their door-steps,
 3 Stop  |      The next day the Geese came again to visit the Turtle
 4 Stop  |   the people say, when they came to see the poor Turtle, "
 5 Ox    | yoked to the first. A crowd came to watch again. The owner
 6 Sandy | goods packed in many carts, came to a desert. He was on his
 7 Sandy | give up!" Then the merchant came up out of the hole and said
 8 Sandy |    They must be saved. Down came the hammer. This time the
 9 Quails|    very next day the fowler came and called them together.
10 Quails|    quarrel. When the fowler came that day he flung his net
11 Rice  |    of this king. The Valuer came and said they were worth
12 Rabbit| about it."~At last the Lion came to the Rabbit who had first
13 Wise  |   the country. By and by he came to a desert which he had
14 Wise  |   and before nightfall they came upon the loaded wagons belonging
15 Elepha|  Now one night some robbers came into the courtyard and sat
16 Elepha|     morning when the keeper came to feed Girly-face he picked
17 Deer  |  cook went to the king, who came himself to find out about
18 Deer  |  the Banyan Deer, "a mother came with her young baby and
19 Deer  |     to take her place, so I came myself."~"King of the Banyan
20 Sprite| hand.~The water-sprite soon came along in the form of a woodsman.~"
21 White |    were at work an Elephant came limping on three feet to
22 White |  his back.~One day the king came down the river and saw this