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4. He replied, "I told
them to eat three meals a day, not counting snacks."
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5. "You have instructed them wrongly! I told you
that they could only eat one meal every three days, but you said to eat
three meals a day. Imagine the amount of waste matter! You go back down
to earth, and this time I'll change you into a dung beetle. Your work
is to bury all the faeces. If not, they will pile up and stink to high
heaven."
From then on, that immortal has lived on earth
as a dung beetle, flying everywhere looking for faeces. If it finds
any, it will dig a hole there in the earth, roll small balls of dung
into the hole and bury it.
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Based on the folk tale of the same title from "At
Grandfather's Knee" edited by Margaret Milliken, adapted by
Teng Ming Xin and
Chen Jin Feng, illustrated by Emily H.
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