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CHEATS WILL SURELY BE CHEATED. In the village of Yachavara there lived a Sudra named Isukathakkidigadu (lit. the holder of a quantity of sand). One day he wanted to go to another village and started with a ser of sand tied to the liem of his garment. At Machavara, an adjacent village, lived another Sudra, Pedathakkidigadu (lit. the holder of a quantity of cowdung), who also wanted to go to another village, and started with a viss of cowdung tied to the hem of his garment. They met each' other accidentally in the evening, went to the same village, and seated themselves on the pial of a rest-house. Isukathakkidi saw the bundle of Pedathakiddi, took it to be a quantity of food, and resolved to reserve it for his own use, and so asked him what it was. Whereupon Pedathakiddi, who entertained the same desires about the bundle of Isukathakkidi, told him that it contained a quantity of food, and asked Isukathakkidi what the