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Two days after, the cat caught a cow, and the sultan was told, `Master, the cat has caught a cow,' but he only said, `It was my cow and my cat.'

And the cat waited a few days, and then it caught a donkey, and they told the sultan, `Master, the cat has caught a donkey,' and he said, `My cat and my donkey.' Next it was a horse, and after that a camel, and when the sultan was told he said, `You don't like this cat, and want me to kill it. And I shall not kill it. Let it eat the camel; let it even eat a man.'

Then the people went to the sultan in a body, and told him of all the misdeeds of that cat. But he answered as before, `The cat is mine and the people are mine.' And no man dared kill the cat, which grew bolder and bolder, and at last came into the town to look for its prey.

The soldiers answered him, `Did we not tell you, master, what the cat was doing, and did you not say, ``My cat and my people''?'

And he answered: `True, I said it.'

Now the youngest son had not gone with the rest, but had stayed at home with his mother; and when he heard that his brothers had been killed by the cat he said, `Let me go, that it may slay me also.' His mother entreated him not to leave her, but he would not listen, and he took his sword and a spear and some rice cakes, and went after the cat, which by this time had run of to a great distance.

Again his father offered him what he would, even the crown itself, but the boy would hear nothing, and went on his way.

Many times his slaves came and told him, `We have seen footprints, and today we shall behold the Nunda.' But the footprints never turned out to be those of the Nunda. They wandered far through deserts and through forests, and at length came to the foot of a great hill. And something in the boy's soul whispered that here was the end of all their seeking, and today they would find the Nunda.

He crept down with his spear in his hand, and then he stopped and gazed below him.

`This must be the real Nunda,' thought he. `My mother told me its ears were small, and this one's are small. She told me it was broad and not long, and this is broad and not long. She told me it had spots like a civet-cat, and this has spots like a civet-cat.' Then he left the Nunda lying asleep at the foot of the mountain, and went back to his slaves.

It was now afternoon, and the lad said `It is time we went after the Nunda.' And they went till they reached the bottom and came to a great forest which lay between them and the Nunda.

Noiselessly they crept along till they were quite close to it; then, at a sign from the boy, they threw their spears. The Nunda did not stir as the spears had done their work, but a great fear seized them all, and they ran away retreating up the mountain.