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How did the animals know that the king was just a jackal?

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How did the animals know that the king was just a jackal?

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Once the jackal got up in the middle of the night hearing other jackals’ howl in the forests. He forget he was a king and began to howl loudly. All the animals ran out to see and found that it was the jackal who was howling. In this way they came to know that the king was just a jackal.

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