Anybody will tell you that ! If you like , I will ask those people who are digging there ! ' ` Very well , ' replied the sheep . And the jackal called out : ` Ho ! You diggers , tell me : Who was it you heard singing over the work ? ' ` Why , it was you , of course , jackal ! You sang so loud that the whole world might have heard you ! ' ` And who it is that sings -- he who draws the water , or he who empties it ? ' ` Why , certainly he who draws the water ! ' ` You hear ? ' said the jackal , turning to the sheep . ` Now come and carry away your own portion , or else I shall take it for myself . ' ` You have got the better of me , ' answered the sheep ; ` and I suppose I must confess myself beaten ! But as I bear no malice , go and eat some of the dates that I have brought in that sack . ' And the jackal , who loved dates , ran instantly back , and tore open the mouth of the sack . But just as he was about to plunge his nose in he saw two brown eyes calmly looking at him . In an instant he had let fall the flap of the sack and bounded back to where the sheep was standing . ' I was only in fun ; and you have brought my uncle the greyhound . Take away the sack , we will make the division over again . ' And he began rearranging the heaps .
` One , two , three , four , five , six , seven , for my mother the sheep , and one for the XXXXX , ' counted he ; casting timid glances all the while at the sack .
Ho diggers fall flap heaps jackal people sack sheep singing