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Why/when did Abbu Khan become unhappy?

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Why/when did Abbu Khan become unhappy?

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Abbu Khan learned that Chandni desired to go to the hills. She had no temptation of eating tastier food or being tied with a longer rope. She did not heed to Abbu’s warning of being eaten up by an old wolf. She Answered back that she would fight the wolf. Her insistence to go to the hills made Abbu Khan unhappy.

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