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"You could
tie a knot
on your
tail,
and carry
it that way,"
said
Little
Black
Sambo.

"So I could," said the Tiger. "Give it to me and I won't eat you this time."

So he got poor Little Black Sambo's beautiful Green Umbrella, and went away saying, "Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle."

And poor Little Black Sambo went away crying, because the cruel Tigers had taken all his fine clothes.

Presently he heard a horrible noise that sounded like "Gr-r-r-r-rrrrrrr," and it got louder and louder.

"Oh dear!" said Little Black Sambo, "There are all the Tigers coming back to eat me up!

What
shall
I
do?"

So he ran quickly to a palm-tree,

nd peeped round it to see what the matter was.

And there he saw all the Tigers fighting and disputing which of them

was
the
grandest.

And at last they all got so angry that they jumped up and took off all the fine clothes and began to tear each other with their claws and

bite each other
with their
great big
white teeth.

And they came, rolling and tumbling, right to the foot of the very tree where Little Black Sambo was hiding, but he jumped quickly in behind the umbrella. And the Tigers all caught hold of each others' tails.

As they wrangled and scrambled, and so they found themselves in a ring around the tree.

Then, when the Tigers were very wee and very far away, Little Black Sambo jumped up and called out,

"Oh! Tigers!
why have
you taken
off all your
nice clothes?
Don't you
want them
any more?"

But

the

Tigers

only

answered

"Gr-r-r-rrrrr!"