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17THE HERDERS AND CATTLE MARCHED OUT
(Athena Continues)
“The story of the remaining men and the cattle is not over yet, as we will see presently.”
“That night the news of the attack on the Pogaiyan spread quickly throughout the forest. Every animal was outraged, for you know, the panther was an elder, a respected member of a senior council of animals, and the attack, they had learnt, had been unprovoked. The hyena openly rued his rash act for which the panther had been targeted.
The next day at early dawn many of them assembled outside the kraal, curious to see who these perpetrators were that had treated the panther so shamefully. As usual, they were a mix of animals, the sambhar, deer, small herd of bison, those directly affected by this illegal grazers, the panther with the two
