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62 ingly angry, and began to rebuke the Brahman for letting loose a number of mad dogs on the way-farers. The Brahman, on hearing this, became certain that they must be mad dogs and tried to unloose them, when the last of the Sudras came up and wanted him to tie them up to a tree adjacent, as, by letting them loose, they would fall upon people and bite them. The Brahman thereupon tied them to a tree and ran away. The Sudras then untied them and took them home.

Moral:—An intelligent person can be duped by a number of men maintaining the same foolish opinion.