Very unwillingly the jackal held the rope , while the hedgehog walked slowly round the greyhound till he reached the jackal again . He knew quite well by the paws and tail that it was a greyhound and not a sheep , that the shepherd had sold them ; and as he could not tell what turn affairs might take , he resolved to get out of the way . ` Oh ! yes , you are right , ' he said to the jackal ; ` but I never can eat till I have first drunk . I will just go and quench my thirst from that spring at the edge of the wood , and then I shall be ready for breakfast . ' ` Do n't be long , then , ' called the jackal , as the hedgehog hurried off at his best pace . And he lay down under a rock to wait for him . More than an hour passed by and the hedgehog had had plenty of time to go to the spring and back , and still there was no sign of him . And this was very natural , as he had hidden himself in some long grass under a tree ! At length the jackal guessed that for some reason his friend had run away , and determined to wait for his breakfast no longer . So he went up to the place where the greyhound had been tethered and untied the rope . But just as he was about to spring on his back and give him a deadly bite , the jackal heard a low growl , which never proceeded from the throat of any sheep . Like a flash of lightning the jackal threw down the cord and was flying across the plain ; but though his legs were long , the greyhound 's legs were longer still , and he soon came up with his prey . The jackal turned to fight , but he was no match for the greyhound , and in a few minutes he was lying dead on the ground , while the greyhound was trotting peacefully back to the shepherd . The Adventures of the Jackal 's Eldest Son -LSB- Nouveaux Contes Berberes , par Rene Basset . -RSB- Now , though the jackal was dead , he had left two sons behind him , every whit as cunning and tricky as their father . The elder of the two was a fine handsome creature , who had a pleasant manner and made many friends . The animal he saw most of was a hyena ; and one day , when they were taking a walk together , they picked up a beautiful green cloak , which had evidently been dropped by some one riding across the plain on a camel . Of course each wanted to have it , and they almost quarrelled over the matter ; but at length it was settled that the hyena should wear the cloak by day and the jackal by night . After a little while , however , the jackal became discontented with this arrangement , declaring that none of his friends , who were quite different from those of the hyena , could see the splendour of the mantle , and that it was only fair that he should sometimes be allowed to wear it by day .
To this the hyena would by no means consent , and they were on the eve XXXXX a quarrel when the hyena proposed that they should ask the lion to judge between them .
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