Page 39 - Moral Stories Vol 2

Few days later, a king commanded his trappers to trap elephants. They prepared a water trap and caught the king elephant and part of his herd. Three days later they dragged them out and tied them to the trees with ropes.
After they left, the king-elephant wondered:
ELEPHANT: “How and with whose help will we be freed? My friends the Mice! Why didn’t I think of them earlier?”
So the king sent a message to the mice with exact description of their unfortunate position in the trap.
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