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CHINESE FABLES AND FOLK STORIES

in the wilderness, which was named Hai Hau for the general who discovered it. It is only a half mile from here."

Then the general, Gui Süt Yun, awoke and said, "Strange, but I surely heard an ant and a bird talking together while I slept. Where is my map? I did not know of the cave of Hai Hau."

He found the great cave spring, and he and his horse drank. Then he hurried back to the soldiers, and their lives were saved.