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I never said I didn't. That fellow Kumbha started all this fuss. Did I say a word?

Perhaps, though a pot-bellied man, he is quite empty inside; an empty vessel sounds most, you know.

Who is he? Is he any kinsman of yours?

Not at all. He is just a cousin of our village chief's father-in-law, and he does not even live in the same part of our village with us.

Just so: he quite looks the seventh cousin of somebody's father-in-law,