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"Friend, you can well sleep; I will take care of the cub."
The female-deer was soon asleep, being free from worries. The female-fox took this fine chance and devoured the cub. Not only that, but she applied the blood to the mouth of the sleeping female-deer. After that, the cunning female-fox went away into the forest.
The lioness returned and did not find her cub. She went for a search in the forest. The female-fox met her on the way. The lioness asked her, "Friend ! Where is my cub ? I have told both of you to look afrer it.”
The female-fox replied, “Friend ! I had gone away shortly afterwards. Let us ask female-deer.”
Awakening the deer the lioness asked, “Where is my cub ?”.
The famale deer replied, “Friend ! I had gone to bed. Sister fox was
