Tale 39 — The deer eaten by a wolf
When Sasaki was young, he was returning from the mountain with his grandfather, and near the village, on the bank of a valley stream, they found the corpse of a large deer whose side had just been torn open. The grandfather said that this had been killed and eaten by a wolf, the mountain wolf, once called o-inu, and that because the wolf was hiding nearby watching, they could not take the hide.
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