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After searching for Vayu high and low, the villagers
gathered under the old banyan tree.Everyone agreed
that there could be no thief in Adhania. They all trusted
one another. The milkman swore that he had seen Vayu
gallop away towards the lake. “There is no sign of Vayu
anywhere. It must be something in the jungle that got
him,” a villager addressed the headman. “Who else can
it be but the giant one-feathered elephant bird? He must
be destroyed!” said the milkman. “For years he has been
lying silent, hatching his evil plans!”
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