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Grandma's Stories
Four animals who by every rule should be eating one another live together by a lake, and are happy.
By a lake there lived four animals, and they should not have been friends at all.
There was Laghupatanaka the crow, who eats almost anything. There was Hiranyaka the mouse. There was Manthara the tortoise. And there was Chitranga the deer.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.