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scripts long ago in India there was an
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old deserted village empty were the old
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houses streets and shops the windows
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were long broken the stairs collapsed
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making it one very fine place for mice
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to run around you can be sure for
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hundreds of happy years the mice had
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made this deserted pile of rubble their
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home they built a wide network of
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tunnels forming extensive mazes what
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good times they had coming and going
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with their many dinner parties and
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festivals weddings and
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passed one day a herd of elephants
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numbering in the thousands stamped
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through the village on their way to a
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west all the elephants were thinking
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about as they marched was how good it
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would be to jump in that Lake for a cool
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swim they did not know that as they
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marched those big elephant feet were
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stamping down on the web of Mazes and
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tunnels the mice had painstakingly
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created over so many years
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what a mess the elephants Left
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Behind the mice quickly held a meeting
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if the herd comes back this way again
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our community is doomed cried one Mouse
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we won't stand a chance cried another
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there was only one thing to do a group
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of Brave mice followed the elephant
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Footprints all the way to the
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lake there they found the king of the
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bowing before the king one Mouse spoke
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for the others and said oh King not far
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from here is our mice Community it's in
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that old deserted village you passed
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through you may remember
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it of course I remember it said the
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Elephant King we are elephants elephants
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never forget but we did not know a mice
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there how could you said the
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mouse you did not know this but your
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herd Stamped Out many of the homes where
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we have lived for hundreds of years if
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you were to return the same way that
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would surely be the end of us we are so
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small and you are big we must ask you
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please won't you find another way to go
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home who knows maybe someday we mice can
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too the elephant King smiled imagine how
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could tiny mice ever help an elephant
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but he felt sorry his herd had crushed
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the village of the mice without even
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knowing it he said there is no need for
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you to worry I will lead the herd home
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way it so happens that nearby lived a
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certain King who ordered his Hunters to
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trap as many elephants as they could
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knowing that the elephants came from far
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and wide to jump in the big lake to swim
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the king's Hunters made a trap in the
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water as soon as the Elephant King and
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his herd jumped into that Lake they were
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caught in the Trap one and all two days
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later the hunters dragged the Elephant
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King and his herd out of the lake with
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large ropes and tied the elephants to
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Big Trees in the forest when the hunters
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had gone all the elephants looked to
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their King the Elephant King tried
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desperately to think what could they do
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all the elephants were tied to the trees
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but one elephant the only reason she was
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free was because she did not jump in the
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lake the Elephant King called out to her
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he told her that she must go back to the
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old deserted village and bring back the
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there when the mice found out the
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trouble that the Elephant King and his
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herd were in they raced over to the lake
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seeing the king and his her herd tied up
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they quickly ran over to the ropes and
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began chewing and fast and vigorously as
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could soon the ropes were chewed all the
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way through and the mice set their large
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Friends free the elephant herd found a
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new way home and the mice Community
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happily lived on for many years to
