More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt
ReadOasis Step 5
(Part 1)

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Once upon a time, a Deer lived in a forest near a lake. Not far from the same lake, a Bird had a nest in the top of a tree, and in the lake lived a Turtle. The three were friends and lived together happily.

A hunter, wandering about in the wood, saw the footprints of the Deer near the edge of the lake. “I must trap the...