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313. The Elephant And The Beetle

Once upon a time, those citizens of the kingdoms of Anga and Magadha who were traveling from one land to the other, used to stay in a house on the marches of the two kingdoms, and there they drank liquor and ate the flesh or fishes, and early in the morning they yoked their carts and went away. At the time when they came, a certain dung beetle, led by the odour of dung, came to the place where they had drunken, and saw some liquor shed upon the ground, and for thirst he drank it, and returned to his lump of dung intoxicated.