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326 So the Brahman concluded that it was a goblin in quadruped form, threw it on the ground, and made for home, terrified. Meanwhile, the three rogues met, caught the goat, and carried out their plan.

"And that is why I say:

and the rest of it.

"Moreover, there is sound sense in this:

Furthermore, one should avoid a quarrel with a crowd, though the individuals be weak. As the verse puts it:

"How was that?" asked Cloudy. And Live-Strong told the story of

In a certain ant-hill lived a prodigious black snake, and his name was Haughty. One day, instead of following the beaten path out of his hole, he tried to crawl through a narrower crevice. In doing so, he suffered a wound, because his body was huge, and the opening was small, and fate willed it so.