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sweet will the Monkey be!”
The Crocodile told his wife he
couldn’t do such a thing. By this
time, the Crocodile was very close
with the Monkey. However, the
Crocodile’s greedy wife wouldn’t
listen to him and pretended to be ill.
“I think I am going to die. The only
jamuns his husband brought him thing that can save me is the sweet
home. She had never eaten anything Monkey’s heart,” she said.
as sweet and delicious as jamuns. The Crocodile had no other choice
However, she wasn’t as clever and but to try and save his wife. The next
kind as her husband and said, “If the day, the Crocodile swam up the river
jamuns taste this sweet, imagine how like always and ate jamuns with the