So when he had caught all the mice he could, he declared that he had had as much as he could eat and would like to go and sleep off his meal.  As they said farewell and were salaaming to each other, the jackal pounced on the crow and ate him up; not a bone or a claw was left.  Then the jackal began to skip with joy and sang:—­

    “I ate a gourdful of mice
    And by the side of the ant-hill
    I ate the crow:  Hurrah!”

And singing thus he went skipping homewards; and on the way he met a fowl and called to it to get out of the way or he would eat it,—­singing:—­

    “I ate a gourdful of mice
    And by the side of the ant-hill
    I ate the crow:—­Hurrah!”

And as the fowl did not move he ate it up; then he skipped on and came to a goat and he sang his verse and told it to get out of the way and as it did not, he ate it; and in the same way he met and killed a sheep and a cow and he ate the liver and lungs of the cow; and then he killed a buffalo and ate its liver and lungs; and by this time he was as full as he could hold.  Then he came to a pool of water and he called to it to get out of the way or he would drink it up and as it did not move, he drank it dry.  Then he came to a post and said “Get out of my way or I will jump over you”—­

    “I ate a gourdful of mice
    And by the side of the ant-hill
    I ate the crow—­Hurrah!”

And so saying he tried to jump over it; but he was so full of what he had eaten and drunk that he leaped short and fell on the point of the stake and was transfixed, so that he died.

CXI.  The Tiger Cub and the Calf.

A Tigress and a Cow used to graze in a dense jungle, and they were both with young.  They became great friends and agreed that they would marry their children to each other.  In the course of time the tigress gave birth to a she-cub and the cow to a bull-calf.  They kept the young ones in the same place and used to go and graze together, and then return at the same time to suckle their young.  On their way back they used to drink at a certain river, the tigress up the stream and the cow lower down.  One day it happened that the cow got first to the river and drank at the upper drinking place, and the tigress drank lower down.  And the froth from the cow’s mouth floated down the stream and the tigress tasted it and found it nice, and this made her think that the flesh of the cow must also be good; so she resolved to eat the cow one day.  The cow saw what was in the mind of the tigress and she left some of her milk in a bowl, and said to her calf:  “The tigress has resolved to eat me; watch this milk and when you see it turn red like blood, you will know that I have been killed;” then she went off to graze with the tigress.