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sitting here. Ask her who had come here ?"
The female-fox, in support of her statement said to the lioness : “Friend ! This cunning female-deer only has killed your cub and ate it. Don't you see that there are stains of blood still on her face ???
The lioness was wise. She kept patience. She thaught that the female-deer is perfectly vegitarian, eating only grass and leaves. She could never touch flesh. Whereas, this female fox is by nature nonvegitarian. Only she could have eaten up my cub. So she asked both of them : "Both of you vomit out. The truth will be known just now.”
Truth has no fear. The female-deer immedietely vomitted. Only straw of grass and leaves came out. After that the turn of the female-fox came but she began to tremble and she hesitated. So the lioness became a hard and ordered,