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 of the rock . ` Do n't you hear them ? ' said the jackal ; ` they are in there , ' and slipped away while the panther was listening to the song of the children . She was still standing in the same place when a baboon went by . ` What are you doing there , panther ? ' ' I am listening to my children singing . It is here that the jackal keeps his school . '
Then the baboon seized a stick , and poked it in the cleft XXXXX the rock , exclaiming , ` Well , then , I should like to see your children ! '
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