When the animals heard the news of how the cock had deceived the hare, and when they heard that there was mourning in the house of the hare, they said, "Truly the words of the cock are true; he has great cunning, even more than the hare."
XXIV
THE MAGIC DATE TREES
ONCE upon a time there was a man, and he married a wife and had two sons.
After many days his wife died, and the man stayed awhile, and then he married again.
Those two sons grew up, till at last their father died.
So their stepmother turned them out of the house and they travelled away.
Now they were very poor, and had no money, nor had they any food.
So they travelled on, and by day they journeyed and ate of the fruits of the forest, and at night they climbed into a tree and slept there, for fear of the wild beasts of the jungle.
Till after many days they arrived at a town, and when they came there the elder brother said to the younger, "You, my brother, sit here outside the town while I go in and beg for food."