The Potter went away to the jungle and began to dig a large hole in the side of a hill.  A jackal presently came by and stopped to ask why he was digging the hole.  The Potter said that it was going to rain fire from heaven, and that every one who had not such a shelter would be burnt.  At this the jackal became very frightened; the Potter thereupon said that he was so sorry for them that he would allow the jackal and his friends to share the hole which he was digging.  The jackal gratefully ran away and returned with a number of other jackals.  They all went into the hole and the Potter closed the entrance.  After a time the Potter looked out and said that the fire was over; he then stationed himself at the mouth of the hole and as the jackals came out he cut off their heads with a knife; in this away he beheaded twenty-three jackals; but the last jackal saw what was happening and dodged the knife and escaped.  The Potter took the twenty-three heads to the Raja; but the Raja pretended to be angry and said that if the Potter did not at once procure a twenty-fourth head, he would be beheaded himself.  The Potter took a pot of gur and went to a pool of water which lay in the direction in which the twenty-fourth jackal had fled.  Smearing his body all over with gur, he lay down by the water and pretended to be dead.  Presently the jackal which had escaped passed that way with a friend.  Seeing the body the second jackal proposed at once to go and eat it; but the first jackal warned the other that there was probably some plot and related how twenty-three of his friends had lost their lives at the hands of this very Potter.  But the second jackal would not listen to advice and going to the supposed corpse smelt it and then began to lick it; finding the taste of the gur very pleasant it set to work to lick the body all over beginning at the feet; it licked the feet and then the legs, when it reached his waist it was within reach of his hand and the Potter stabbed it with his knife and took the head to the Raja.

Foiled in this design, the Raja next ordered the Potter to bring him a jar of tiger’s milk.  Taking some loaves of bread, the Potter went into the jungle and soon found a cave in which was a pair of tiger cubs whose parents were away hunting.  The Potter told the cubs that he was their uncle and gave them the bread to eat; they liked the taste of the bread very much.  Then the Potter hid himself in a tree near the cave.  Presently the tigress came back but her cubs refused to suck her milk as usual, the tigress asked the reason of this and the cubs said that their uncle had come and fed them with something nicer than milk and they were no longer hungry.  They then pointed out the Potter in the tree and the tigress wanted to know what he had given her cubs to eat.  He told her that it was bread:  the tigress said that she would like to try some herself, whereupon the potter replied that he would give her some if she would first give him some of her milk.  The tigress agreed and also consented that her legs should be tied while she was being milked in order that she might not be able to harm the potter.  The tigress having been milked, the Potter gave her a loaf of bread and then ran away as fast as he could.