The jackal fetched them out one by one till he had brought out nine , and he took the last one and brought it out again , so the whole ten seemed to be there , and the panther was quite satisfied . Next day she went again to the chase , and the jackal ate up another little panther , so now there were only eight . In the evening , when she came back , the panther said , ` Jackal , bring out my little ones ! ' And the jackal brought out first one and then another , and the last one he brought out three times , so that the whole ten seemed to be there . The following day the same thing happened , and the next and the next and the next , till at length there was not even one left , and the rest of the day the jackal busied himself with digging a large hole at the back of the den . That night , when the panther returned from hunting , she said to him as usual , ` Jackal , bring out my little ones . ' But the jackal replied : ` Bring out your little ones , indeed ! Why , you know as well as I do that you have eaten them all up . ' Of course the panther had not the least idea what the jackal meant by this , and only repeated , ` Jackal , bring out my children . ' As she got no answer she entered the cave , but found no jackal , for he had crawled through the hole he had made and escaped . And , what was worse , she did not find the little ones either . Now the panther was not going to let the jackal get off like that , and set off at a trot to catch him . The jackal , however , had got a good start , and he reached a place where a swarm of bees deposited their honey in the cleft of a rock . Then he stood still and waited till the panther came up to him : ` Jackal , where are my little ones ? ' she asked . And the jackal answered : ` They are up there . It is where I keep school . ' The panther looked about , and then inquired , ` But where ? I see nothing of them . ' ` Come a little this way , ' said the jackal , ` and you will hear how beautifully they sing . '
So the panther drew near the cleft XXXXX the rock .
as at by for in like of that till to