The wild animals, it is said, were once assembled at Lion\'s. When Lion was asleep, Jackal persuaded Little Fox to twist a rope of ostrich sinews, in order to play Lion a trick. They took ostrich sinews, twisted them, and fastened the rope to Lion\'s tail, and the other end of the rope they tied to a shrub. When Lion awoke, and saw that he was tied up, he became angry, and called the animals together. When they had assembled, Lion said (using this form of conjuration)—

    "What child of his mother and father\'s love,
    Whose mother and father\'s love has tied me?"

Then answered the animal to whom the question was first put&............