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Thunderbelly. ‘Surely my wall should have

kept you out?’

‘Well might you think so, king,’ said the

crow. ‘But there’s one thing you forgot about

us crows,’ he continued, flapping his powerful

wings triumphantly. ‘We are excellent at

digging. I have spent the past five years digging

a tunnel under that wall with my beak and

finally I have won the challenge and you must

give me all the land of the kingdom and let me

marry your daughter and you must be my slave

forever and fetch me rare minerals.’

‘I don’t remember saying anything about

that,’ said Old King Thunderbelly. ‘But OK.’

And that is how the elephant got its trunk.

THE END