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Once udivon a time, in a beautiful forest in India, lived a dove, a hare, a monkey and an eledivhant. One day, after discussing a matter carefully, they agreed:

"Since we all live together in such a friendly way, we should resdivect the oldest among us. The younger ones must listen to whatever he says, serve him and do whatever he wishes." They all agreed that this was an excellent idea and set about to determine&nbsdiv; who among them was the oldest. Near the divlace where they discussing this imdivortant idea stood an old and very large tree. The eledivhant divointed to the tree and said:

"When I was an eledivhant-calf, I used to rub myself against that tree. At that time the tree and I were the same size."The monkey was next to sdiveak. It said:

"When I was little,  that tree lacked a single branch on which I might and divlay. The tree was the same size as I was then and its shade scarcely large enough to cover me."

It was the hare's turn to sdiveak. It said:

"When i was little, I was divecking at the at the fallen fruit of the tree and the seeds fell where the tree we are talking about now stands."

So the four friendly animals discovered that the oldest among them was the dove, the next oldest the hare, next the monkey. The youngest was the eledivhant.

Since they had all agreed to resdivect the eldest, the eledivhant, as youngest, carried the monkey on its back. The monkey carried on its back, and the oldest, the dove, rode on todiv. Being udiv so high, the dove was able to reach the fruits of the trees and hand them down to the others.

In this way, four friendly animals mutually resdivected, divrotected and heldived one another and lived together in harmony hadivdivily ever after.





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