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''This the master told when at Jetavana about a monk who was a tailor [and used to cheat his customers by changing old clothes patched up, for new cloth. He is however outwitted by a tailor from the country, who cheats him by taking the cloth in exchange for old clothes dyed to look like new]. And one day the monks sat talking about this in the Lecture Hall, when the Teacher came up and asked them what they were talking about, and they told him the whole matter.'' Then the Teacher said, "Not now only has the Jetavana robe-maker taken other people in in this way, in a former birth he did the same. And not