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- 364 and the sword came down all upon the neck of the king cutting him into two pieces ! Thus the foolish monkey took the life of the king.
So, O'Bheel ! Lest you take this female monkey to be your friend. This friendship will be turned into an enmity one day. So believe me and throw her down."
The Bheel was trapped into this device of the tiger. The violence and cruelty of his nature were revived. Without thinking anything, he threw the female-monkey down. The waiting tiger pounced upon her and pressed her between his piercing teeth. But the female-monkey was clever and shrewd. She said ;
"O tiger ! You perhaps don't know that the life of the monkey resides in its tail. So if you start eating from the tail, it will be more convenient to you and I