Page:Panchatantra.djvu/90

Rh But when the chamberlains and the eunuchs saw the theft, they picked up clubs and ran in pursuit. Meanwhile, the crow-hen dropped the golden chain in the snake's hole and waited at a safe distance.

Now when the king's men climbed the tree, they found a hole and in it a black snake with swelling hood. So they killed him with their clubs, recovered the golden chain, and went their way. Thereafter the crow and his wife lived in peace.

"And that is why I say:

In cases where brute force would fail,

and the rest of it. Furthermore:

Indeed, there is nothing in the world that the intelligent cannot control. As the saying goes:

"How was that?" asked Cheek. And Victor told the story of

 

In a part of a forest was a lion drunk with pride, and his name was Numskull. He slaughtered the