"Stay and listen to my grievance," begged the egret, and she told the jackal all that had happened and how the money-lender had let himself be bribed by the gold necklace.

So one day when the egret was away, the crow changed the nestlings and brought the little white egrets, to her own nest.

"Where are you off to so fast, uncle?" called out the egret.

They included big and little white egrets and also the mauve and pearl-colored heron, with a partially black head and many- colored bill, which flies with quick, repeated wing-flappings, instead of the usual slow heron wing-beats.

"But," protested the egret "how have my white nestlings become black?"