He was in despair, seeking someone to advise him, when he met the jackal and told him what had taken place between him and the lion.

Suddenly Anuwa came out with a thick stick and set to beating the jackals till they bit through the ropes and ran away howling; but the first jackal was tied so tightly that he could not escape, and Anuwa beat him till he was senseless and lay without moving all night.

Suddenly a jackal came along and snatched up the bundle of books and ran away with it; and though the boy ran after it, he failed to catch the jackal and had to go and tell his father how he had lost his school books.

So he sent for the young women and asked the jackal to say whether one of them would be a suitable bride for Raja Jogeshwar.

I have only played jackal, and even that I have done very badly.

The remaining two hundred and thirty-seven species comprise samples of every size and pattern of limbless reptile found on this globe, from the gigantic python, which crushes a jackal and swallows it whole, to the little burrowing Typhlops, whose proportions are those of an earthworm and its food white ants.

The latter took the jackal by the motionless tail and cast him into the street.

Then he called the jackal: "See, I have killed him.

About this time I would come along and ask the boy if he had got the hyenas curried, 'cause if he had, I wanted him to curry the grave robbersthe jackals.

" "We've got to drive those jackals away, no matter at what risk.

The fables of northwest Africa employ the jackal instead of Reynard, whose place the sycophant of the lion not inaptly fills.

As I can go no further, may God exterminate the jackal and pardon all our sins!

The jackal must be more powerful than the Raja; I will follow the jackal."

How else could they hunt the jackal in India if it was not for this dew?

Then a few days later the crow invited the jackal to dinner in return; and when the jackal arrived the crow led him to an ant-hill and showed him a hollow gourd which he had filled with live mice and said "Here is your dinner."

I kept them to hunt jackals; but tigers are very different things: by the way, there are no real tigers in Ceylon; but leopards and panthers are always called so, and by ourselves as well as by the natives.

He took out his dogs, and we had a good course after a hare, killing two jackals, and sending back the dogs by the sweeper.

Near the jungle lived a jackal, and he found it very hard to get enough to live upon; however, one day he came upon the tiger's den when the father and mother tiger were out hunting, and there he saw the two tiger cubs with a large piece of venison which their parents had brought them.

Along the nearer peaks and hollows of the Moab Mountains, the knots of prowling jackals kept up a running chorus of yappinga discordant chant punctuated now and then by the far-away howl of a hunting wolf; or, by the choking "laugh" of a hyena in the valley below, who thus gave forth the news of some especially delicious bit of carrion discovered among the rocks.

So Jogeshwar stayed his hand and released the jackal who promised at once to set off about the business.

He is said to resemble the jackal in his habit of molesting the graves of the dead, and the Indians have a superstitious dread of hearing his bark at night, believing that it forebodes calamity and death.

"Well," retorted the jackal, "if you are so clever guess the meaning of my dream; and if you cannot, give the man back his cow; if you can say what it means, I will acknowledge that you are fit to be a Raja.

As he cried, Thakur took pity on him and sent a jackal to him.

Once upon a time a crow and a jackal became bosom friends and they agreed that the crow should support the jackal in the hot weather and the jackal support the crow in the rainy season.

This, although not so large a dog as the Rhamporee, is a much pluckier animal, and when well trained will tackle a jackal with the utmost determination.