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 in the corner and soon was sound asleep. At night the tiger came back to work on his new house. When he saw it he rubbed his eyes for he thought that he must be dreaming. There was a roof of dried grass on the house. "Somebody must surely be helping me," he said to himself as he entered the door. The first thing he saw when he entered the door was the stag sound asleep in his bed in the corner. "Who are you and what are you doing in my house?" he said in his deepest voice. The stag woke up with a start. "Who are you and what are you doing in my house?" said the stag in his deepest voice. "It is not your house. It is mine. I built it myself," said the tiger.