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here?' One elephant trainer replied:
'Gentleman! Yesterday, a prince Malaykumar had come here. He lost his ring somewhere here. We doubt that the elephant must have swallowed it up along with eating grass. If the elephants, any of them. had swallowed it, then it must have certainly been thrown out of the body along with the excreta. We are searching that only.'
Mahabal had a flash of thought. He found out one trick. He saw that flour in big quantity was lying there softened. One man was preparing big rolls of that flour and was feeding the elephants with that.
Mahabal also begen to feed one of the elephants. He secretly mixed his own ring in the flour and fed the elephant with that. As soon as this work was over, he went away.
Mahabal found the city deserted.
