The King asked, “How did you shoot to-day the Crow that you were unable to shoot for so many days?”
The man said, “A Parrot settled on the roof of my house. Having remained there while I went to catch the Parrot, the Parrot said to me, ‘I will show you the place where the Crow is.’ Afterwards, having gone with the Parrot I shot the Crow.”
Thereupon the King, in order to ask the Parrot about these matters, told him to seek the Parrot, and come back. He was unable to find the Parrot.
No. 175
The Crow and the Darter
In a country, at the time when a Crow is walking about and seeking food, having seen a Darter[1] eating small fishes,[2] and gone near the Darter, he said, “Friend, because there is no food for me assist me.”
Thereupon the Darter having said, “It is good; I will give you food,” and having constructed the nest on the high ground at the side of the tank at which the Darter stays, and told the Crow to be in the nest, the Darter brought small fishes, and gave [them to him] near the nest.
When he was [there] a long time eating the fishes, the Crow, having thought of going to his country in which he stayed [before], said to the Darter, “Friend, I must go to my village,” he said.