The ant answered, “You shall yet see that I am able to save this general, his soldiers, and his horses.”
The ant then went straight to the general’s ear and said to him, “Do you remember General Hai Hau who was lost in this wilderness? If you will go to the forest, you will see a black street full of my people. They will lead you to their nests near the great cave spring [[190]]in the wilderness, which was named Hai Hau for the general who discovered it. It is only a half mile from here.”
Then the general, Gui Süt Yun, awoke and said, “Strange, but I surely heard an ant and a bird talking together while I slept. Where is my map? I did not know of the cave of Hai Hau.”
He found the great cave spring, and he and his horse drank. Then he hurried back to the soldiers, and their lives were saved. [[191]]
[1] The Chinese say that this is a true story which shows that the General Gui Süt Yun was a very good man and true. Otherwise the dream would not have been given him. [↑]
THREE GIRLS WHO WENT TO A BOYS’ SCHOOL
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