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 hot sun. The tiger said to himself, "I am going to build my house here. The place is all ready for me for there isn't very much underbrush here." He began at once and finished clearing the place. Then it became daylight and he went away. At daylight the stag came back to do more work on his new house. "H'm," he said when he looked at the clearing. "Somebody is helping me. The place is cleared and ready for me to build the foundation." He began to work at once and worked all day. At night when the foundation was laid, he went away. At night the tiger came to work at his new house. "H'm," he said when he looked at it. "Somebody is helping me.