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Overview
A male and female dog shelter in an empty tiger’s den after a tiring journey. When its owner returns, the female devises a bluff: her companion sits at the entrance while she calls from within for more tiger meat for herself and their supposed young. The frightened tiger flees. A monkey persuades him that the intruders are merely dogs and agrees to approach tied to the tiger’s tail. One dog then greets the monkey as a supplier bringing an unsatisfactorily lean tiger. Convinced that his companion has betrayed him, the tiger bolts and drags the monkey to death. The dogs laugh at the result. Their speech, marriage and planned deception belong to this literary animal fable; the supposed young and appetite for tiger flesh are part of the bluff, not established offspring or extraordinary feeding powers.
Origins & earliest records
Burmese tale mediated through a pseudonymous English literary collection
Records & interpretation
Complete A Fable, pp. 23–35, directly read.
Selected bibliography
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Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah
A Fable, pp. 23–35
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Primary records and illustrations
Mimosa, Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895)
A Fable. pp. 23–35
Complete fable read through the dogs’ closing comment. No named oral informant or native-language text supplied. Public-domain historical English literary witness; paraphrase only. Supposed young not entered as actual kin.
References
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- Historical literary retellingMimosa, Told on the Pagoda (1895), A Fable, pp. 23–35Research access: 2026-10-05
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