and in a great hurry to drink, they did not care to dispute the matter, but gabbled off the words without a second thought.⁠Even the royal tiger, treating it as a jest, repeated the jackal's rhyme, in consequence of which the latter became quite cock-a-

hoop, and really began to believe he was a personage of great importance.

⁠By and by an iguana, or big lizard, came waddling and wheezing down to the water, looking for all the world like a baby alligator.

⁠'Hi! you there!' sang out the jackal; 'you mustn't drink until you have said—

⁠'Silver is his daïs, plastered o'er with gold;

⁠In his ears are jewels,—some prince I must behold!'