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of those pieces with his tattered cap. Dirty and defiled were those pieces, half-chewn by the dogs. But before the dogs could pounce upon these, he placed them in his mouth and beaming with a smile, trudged along his way-as though he had been resusciated! He was trudging along and behind were the barking dogs of the street, barking, barking, continually barking!
The dogs were barking unceasingly, so was the famished man laughing unstintedly!
The dogs were laughing at this stark bankruptcy of mankind; they were barking, viewing this cruel humiliation of man.
The starved man was laughing at this forlorn destitution of humanity, as it were, observing thus:
'O accursed man! There is no place for thee today anywhere in this world. There may be resthouses for ailing animals, but no such retreat for thee!'
This, indeed, is laughing in barking; barking in laughing!
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