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'Story about a camel who is persuaded to carry a jackal across a river to find food for their dinner. However, as soon as the jackal finishes eating he yelps and howls, attracting all the villagers. The poor camel is caught and beaten, but the jackal discovers that it does not pay to be so selfish' (source: contents page).
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This work is told first in English and then in Hindi.
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it is a re-telling of an Indian folktale, and contains parallel text in Hindi.
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