The Monkey
A group of travelling merchants stop for the night, and a lion sneaks in amongst the livestock, waiting to pounce. However, before the lion can do anything, a thief also breaks into the paddock, feels the lion's huge hindquarters, and mistakes it for a particularly fat bull, and jumps on its back. The lion, terrified, begins to run - and the thief, realising his mistake, is also frightened, but too afraid of what might happen if he lets go. When they pass under a tree, the thief grabs a low hanging branch, and swings off the lion's back. The lion continues to run until it meets a monkey, who asks what has happened; when the monkey heard that the man had escaped into a tree, it offers to help, so the two creatures return to where the thief had hidden himself. The monkey climbs up into the tree where the man was hiding, but the man grabs the monkey's testicles and squeezes and twists them so painfully that hte monkey shrieks and falls senseless from the tree.
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