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Fables for Children By Leo Tolstoy
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The Jackals And The Elephant
The Jackals had eaten up all the carrion in the woods, and had nothing to eat. So an old Jackal was thinking how to find something to feed on. He went to an Elephant, and said:
“We had a king, but he became overweening: he told us to do things that nobody could do; we want to choose another king, and my people have sent me to ask you to be our king. You will have an easy life with us. Whatever you will order us to do, we will do, and we will honour you in everything. Come to our kingdom!”
The Elephant consented, and followed the Jackal. The Jackal brought him to a swamp. When the Elephant stuck fast in it, the Jackal said:
“Now command! Whatever you command, we will do.”
The Elephant said:
“I command you to pull me out from here.”
The Jackal began to laugh, and said:
“Take hold of my tail with your trunk, and I will pull you out at once.”
The Elephant said:
“Can I be pulled out by a tail?”
But the Jackal said to him:
“Why, then, do you command us to do what is impossible? Did we not drive away our first king for telling us to do what could not be done?”
When the Elephant died in the swamp the Jackals came and ate him up.
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