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The Basket at Dusk

12 min · India · Calm · Wisdom

At sunset, a serene keeper of the jungle walks the village paths distributing each creature’s portion, while a playful monkey hides gifts along the way, and discovers, without alarm or scolding, that nothing given can be lost, and that his own share was always waiting for him.

Retold from The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling.

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Story 12 of How Things Came to Be, starting at 2:31:39.