More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt
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(Part 2)
The guards told the king that the pearls were gone. ?Find the man who stole the pearls,? said the king. Away went the guards looking high and low for the thief. After the king had gone, the chief guard said to himself: ?There is something strange here. These pearls were lost in the garden. There was a strong guard at the gates, so that no one from the outside could get into the garden. On the other hand, there are hundreds of Monkey...