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16THE BEES LEND A HAND
Beasts as we may be, we are by our code bound
Not to use another without his consent sound
At about the same time in another part of the jungle, there was another problem brewing. A couple of towns close to the forest were facing a situation of rapidly shrinking fodder for their domestic animals, with grazing lands around their place fully depleted. The situation was not desperate because they had several ways of overcoming the problem, but the easiest way seemed to be to take their cattle illicitly into the jungle a little away, where they knew some good grazing land for the animals existed around a lake deep inside. And though the lake itself had almost shrunk and withered away, on its still moist receding banks grew abundant grass. That the animals of the f
