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When their work was finished they went away, planning what they should do with their crop.
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| When my tree bears fruit, I shall sell it and have a great deal of money | |
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| When my tree bears fruit, I shall sell it and buy three varas of cloth to wear in place of this cracked shell. | |
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A few weeks later they went back to the place to see their plants and found that that of the monkey was dead, for its roots had had no soil in the tree, but that of the turtle was tall and bearing fru
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| I will climb to the top so that we can get the fruit, And he sprang up the tree, leaving the poor turtle on the ground alone | |
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| Please give me some to eat. | |
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but the monkey threw him only a green one and ate all the the ripe ones himself.
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