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“Right; my father wants you.’ He went with them to 
his father and took them up to the reception room. Said his 
father, “Have you brought the bulls?” Said the boy, “ Yes.” 
“Where are they?” said the Qazi, “There they are, 
“there are amongst them, bulle;: and sain; ata a and so on.’ 
Said the father, “And how did you come to know that these- 
particular men are bulls?” The boy narrated what had passed, 
and added, ‘‘ He who knows not his hand from his foot, is a bull.” 
Said the Qazi, “ And who are the asses ?” Said the e boy, ‘ ‘ They 
that sing at dusk.” “And the dogs?” “Those that plunder 
people without right.’ Said the father, “ Well, now I sone that 
thou art my son, but as for him, he’s a mother’s darling.”! 
XII. THE SLAVE AND THE PUMPKIN. 
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The slave ignored the salute. The passer-by then went ieaight 
id, “So and So! 
by your slave, who was sitting on the ground, 
but he would not return the salutation, and I know not 
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an unreasoning creature.” Said the master, a How is that 
Ts there any ne L toring, between you ot” . Said the. 
“No.” Said ter, “All right.” At night the slave 
returned, when ie oe said to him, “ So and So passed vigae | 
and saluted thee—and thon didst ignore his salute ? Moe tie ere 
between thee and him?” Said the ek wr ast hon A 
” h ter, oe 1as 
nothing between us.” Said t hers red, * My master, saluting © 
kins 
not return his salute ?” He 
leads to talking, ot talking leads to taking pump 
XIII. THE WISE BOY AND THE FOOLISH ONE. 
e day he said 
ere was once a man who had a clever son. Saud the boy, 
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to his son, “To-day we will visit the chief. 
1 Lit, “The son of his mother,” hence a mother’s darling, soft and 
useless.” 
2 A passer-by mast first salute one stationary. e 
3 This saying of the slave has now become & prover 
