At that point the panther suddenly vanished, leaving the wolf standing bewildered for a second in the courtyard. Then, looking around, he saw that the panther had transformed itself into a tiny black worm and was busy crawling into a pomegranate that had fallen from one of the trees around the fountain. With an angry cry the wolf transformed itself into a c**k with brightly colored tail feathers waving in the air. Running over to the pomegranate the c**k began attacking it with his beak to kill the worm inside.
The overripe fruit split open with the force of the c**k’s attack, and the seeds scattered all over the courtyard. One seed in particular rolled under the lip of the fountain and was momentarily hidden from view.
The c**k meanwhile raced around the yard, gobbling up every pomegran
