This Rat said, "It is very good." After that the Turtle came.

At the time when these two are keeping the Precepts a Deer came to the river for drinking water. Having seen these two here, "What, friends, are you [doing] there?" [he said].

"We are keeping the Precepts."

"Is it good for me to come?"

"Ane! It is very good," they said. After that, the Deer came.

At the time when these three are keeping the Precepts a Crow came flying. The Crow said, "What, friends, are you [doing] there?"

"We three are keeping the Precepts."

"Would it be good for me to come, too?" he said.

"You [Crows] are not trustworthy."

"It is true, friend, [regarding the others]; nevertheless there is trustworthiness in me," he said. Thereupon they said, "Come." The Crow came.

At the time when these four are keeping the Precepts a Jackal came. Having seen these four the Jackal said, "What, friends, are you [doing] there?"

"We are keeping the Precepts."

"Would it be good for me to come, too?" he said.

"Your kind are not trustworthy," they said.

"Yes, it is true [regarding the others]; nevertheless I am trustworthy," he said.

"If so, come," they said. Afterwards the Jackal came.

At the time when the five are keeping the Precepts, when the Jackal went for food and went to the Gamarala’s chena, he saw that there is good corn there, and he said to the Deer, "Friend, there is a good food for you in the Gamarala’s chena," he said.

The Deer said, "[For you] to tell me the road let us go together," he said. The Jackal and Deer, both, having gone, the Deer ate food and filling his belly returned.

On the following day, when the Jackal was going alone to the Gamarala’s chena the Gamarala was [there].

This Jackal said, "Doesn’t the corn disappear in this chena? The Deer, indeed, has eaten it. You can’t find the gap [by which he came]; shall I find and show (lit., give) you it?"

The Gamarala said "Ha."

"Here, look; the gap. Having made the noose, and seized and killed it, you must give me meat," he said. The Gamarala made the noose.

On the following day, when the Deer went to eat food on the high ground, he was tied in the noose. When the Jackal went he had been tied. The Jackal went near the Gamarala [and told him].

The Crow said, "Our friend went for food; why has he not come?" When he went to look, having seen that he had been tied in the noose, he said to the Rat, "Friend, that friend of ours went to eat food; having been tied in the noose he is unable to come."

After that, the Rat having gone cut the noose. He said to this Deer, "Remain lying down in the grass field," he said. (To make it appear to be dead the Crow perched on the body of the Deer.)