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on my class card.) A buge elephant stood at the brink of the well and not being able to reach the man with his mighty trunk, was trying to shake the tree and thus force the inan out. Down in the walls of the well were four snakes in an attitude of hissing at the nan, as if about to sting him, lower down at the bottom was a huge serpent reaching up towards the man with his great open mouth. Two rats, ore black, one white, were knawing at the trunk of the tree to which the man was holding on. Higher up on the branch was honey-comb and a swarm of bees. The efforts of the elephant to chake the man loose by swaying the limb had caused the honey to trickle down in drops, which were falling on the lips of the man. A monk, a teacher of religion in his white monk's garb stood on the opposite side of the well from the elephant, as if offering assistance to escape to the man from the many dangers surrounding him. I could understand all the dangers to which the man was exposed, but I felt assured that there was a deeper meaning to it all, and after gazing a long time at the picture trying to solve its meaning, I appealed to my father. At once he said, "My son, will you be able to understand the meaning even if I explain to you ?" "I think you will," he said, "once upon a time several men were travelling in company through a great forest infested with wild beasts. When in the midst of the forest they were attacked by a band of robbers, they all fled for their
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