ABSTRACT
IN times long past there was a very greedy jackal, which used to roam in the forest, and even in places uninhabited by men. At length he made his way into the house of a dyer, and fell into an indigo vat. After he had escaped he lay down to sleep on a neighbouring dunghill. Having tossed about thereon, so that his body became ever so un-shapely, he jumped into the water. When he had come out, and had been exposed to the rays of the sun, lie acquired the colour of cyanite.
