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    Genghis Khan and His Falcon

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    Genghis Khan and his troops went hunting with his favorite falcon. The group found nothing and Khan grew thirsty in the heat. The falcon twice knocked a cup of water from his hands when he tried to drink. Angry but not wanting to show disrespect, Khan killed the falcon with his sword. He then discovered a pool of water near where he found the stream, but it contained a dead poisonous snake. Khan realized the falcon had saved his life by preventing him from drinking the poisoned water. He had a gold figurine made to honor the falcon's loyalty.

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    Genghis Khan and his troops went hunting with his favorite falcon. The group found nothing and Khan grew thirsty in the heat. The falcon twice knocked a cup of water from his hands when he tried to drink. Angry but not wanting to show disrespect, Khan killed the falcon with his sword. He then discovered a pool of water near where he found the stream, but it contained a dead poisonous snake. Khan realized the falcon had saved his life by preventing him from drinking the poisoned water. He had a gold figurine made to honor the falcon's loyalty.

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    Genghis Khan and his troops went hunting with his favorite falcon. The group found nothing and Khan grew thirsty in the heat. The falcon twice knocked a cup of water from his hands when he tried to drink. Angry but not wanting to show disrespect, Khan killed the falcon with his sword. He then discovered a pool of water near where he found the stream, but it contained a dead poisonous snake. Khan realized the falcon had saved his life by preventing him from drinking the poisoned water. He had a gold figurine made to honor the falcon's loyalty.

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    Genghis Khan and his troops went hunting with his favorite falcon. The group found nothing and Khan grew thirsty in the heat. The falcon twice knocked a cup of water from his hands when he tried to drink. Angry but not wanting to show disrespect, Khan killed the falcon with his sword. He then discovered a pool of water near where he found the stream, but it contained a dead poisonous snake. Khan realized the falcon had saved his life by preventing him from drinking the poisoned water. He had a gold figurine made to honor the falcon's loyalty.

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    Genghis Khan and his Falcon

    One morning, the Mongol warrior, Genghis Khan, and his troops went out hunting. His
    companions carried bows and arrows, but Genghis Khan carried his favorite falcon, which was
    better and surer than any arrow, because it could fly into the skies and see everything that a
    human being could not.

    However, despite the group’s efforts, they found nothing. Disappointed, Genghis Khan
    returned to their encampment and in order not to take out his frustrations on his companions,
    he left the rest of them, and Khan was desperately tired and thirsty. In the summer heat, all the
    streams had dried up, and he could find nothing to drink. Then, to his amazement, he saw a
    thread of water flowing from a rock just in front of him.

    He removed the falcon from his arm and took out the silver cup which he always carried with
    him. It was very slow to fill and, just as he was about to drink the water from it, the falcon flew
    up plucked the cup from his hands, and sent it falling to the ground.

    Genghis Khan was furious, but then the falcon was his favorite, and perhaps it, too, was thirsty.
    He picked up the cup, cleaned off the dirt, and filled it again. When the cup was only half-
    empty this time, the falcon again attacked it, spilling the water.

    Genghis Khan adored his bird, but he knew that he could not, under any circumstances, allow
    such disrespect; someone might be watching this scene from afar and, later on, would tell his
    warriors that the great conqueror was not capable of taming a plain bird.

    This time, he drew his sword, picked up the cup and refilled it, keeping one eye on the stream
    and the other on the falcon. As soon as he had enough water in the cup and was ready to drink,
    the falcon again took flight and flew towards him. Khan with, one thrust, pierced the bird’s
    breast.

    The thread of water, however, had dried up but Khan was still determined to find something to
    drink so he climbed up the rock where the water fell from. To his surprise, there really was a
    pool of water and, in the middle of it, lay a dead snake, which was one of the most poisonous in
    the region. If he had drunk the water, he, too. Would have died.

    Khan then returned to camp with the dead falcon in his arms. He ordered a gold figurine of the
    bird to be made and on one of the wings, he had engraved:

    “Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be a friend.”
    And on the other wing, he had these words:

    “Any action done out of anger will surely lead to failure.”

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