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JACKAL OR TIGER?
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a little way off, ‘who are you?’ At this salutation from a stranger the queen grew silent, dreading she knew not what.

‘Oh, you that weep,’ repeated the farmer, ‘fear not

The Farmer finds the Queen weeping by the Palanquin
The Farmer finds the Queen weeping by the Palanquin

to speak to me, for you are to me as a daughter. Tell me, who are you?’

His voice was so kind that the queen gathered up her courage and spoke. And when she had told her story,

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