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servant that they would one day
repay him for saving them. The
servant rode on once again, and after
a while it seemed as if there was a
voice coming from under his boots.
He listened carefully and heard the
voice of an ant complaining about
how people can’t stop stomping all
reeds and gasping for water. The over ants. The horse had run down
servant found kindness in his heart all of the ant’s people all day without
and took the three dying fishes and any mercy. So the servant found
put them back into the pound. They goodness in his heart and carefully
leapt with joy put out their heads plucked the ant out of his boot and
from the pound and promised the let him down gently onto the grass,