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362 of his tool. The Emperor accordingly rebuked him, saying:—"Where does this fellow come from that, without respect to us, he gives such heedless answers with unchastened heart?" So he handed him over to the Mononobe to be executed on the moor.

Now amongst his comrades there was a carpenter who lamented for Mane, and made a song, saying:—

When the Emperor heard this song, his feelings changed to remorse, and he said with a sigh of regret:—"How many men I have destroyed!" So he mounted a messenger of mercy on a black horse of Kahi, and made him gallop to the place of execution to stop it and pardon him. The cords with which he was tied were unbound, and he, too, made a song, saying:—

Instead of "My life were lost," one book has, "He would not have arrived (in time)."

14th year, Spring, 1st month, 13th day. Awo, Musa no Sukuri, and the others, in company with envoys from the Land