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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY,
[APRIL, 1307.
kingdom, made over charge of the kingdom to habit of going daily to the garden and purlois. him. The son assumed the reigns of government, ing the flowers. The king, missing a number of treated his people with justice and generosity, them day after day, told the gardeners in charge and consequently his people flourished.
to be on the alert to apprehend the rogue and
bring him before him. They accordingly kept You should therefore enquire into the capu- watch, caught the minister's son red-handed, bilities of the person, and his mental tendencies, put him into a conveyance and took him to before entrusting him with authority.
the king's palace. The minister was at the
time standing at the gate. Those who were near XIV.
him told him what had lappened, how his son
bad stolen the flowers, how he was caught by At Banarss lived a washerman, who bad an the gardeners in the very act of stealing, LES and a dog. One night some burglars made how he was being conveyed before the king, and a chink in the wall, and waited till he should go wanted the minister to save his son from the to bed to break in and rob all bis property. The infamy. The minister thereupon loudly answers dog was then absent from the spot; but the ass,
ed, "It is of no consequence, if he has a mouli Keeing the robbers enter the master's house, he will live.” The son, hearing this, quickly divined what would happen, aud how the house
perceived the exact inport of bis father's words, would be rid of all its valuables in no time, and
and immediately ate all the flowers. When thought that if the dog were here, he would bark they brought him before the king, he asked the loudly, awake the master, and prevent the longe boy why be had stolen the flowers. To which the hold property from being robbed. But he did boy said that they brought him there unjustly. not know when the dog wonld come; and thougbt for he only went to see the garden, but did not that everybody ought not to be indifferent to steal anything. As there were no flowers found his master's affairs, especially in a time of sore upon him, the king believed this, and having distress. Ho ought, therefore, to bray and thus punished the gardeners sent them away. awake the master - 80 he brayed to the top of his voice. The washernan hearing the
Thus, a ready person may always get himself ass bray, and thinking that he was unneces- out of a scrape. Harily awakened by it, lost his teinper, took a stick, beat it well, lay down, and was enjoying
XVI. Kound sleep once again, when the robbers broke iu and began plundering the house. At this
A merchant of Bellary had a garden at the juncture the dog returned. The ass, seeing
back of his house, in which were growing all sorts the dog, narrated to him what had happened ; how
of vegetables. One day, when the door was wille the thieves broke into the house and carried off the greater part of the property; how he bad
open, an ass belonging to a washerman entered
and began to graze. The merchant's wife be brayed, wishing to prevent the occurrence;
came infuriated at the sight, took hold of a largo how it was misunderstood by their master; what
stick, and struck the ass with such force that a severe drubbing he had received, and so on.
she broke its leg. When its owner heard Ho requested the dog at any rate to bark and let
this, he came up, abused the merchant's wife, and the mnater know the fact. Thereupon the dog
gave her a kick in the abdomen, which resulted began to bark loudly. The washerman hear
in a miscarriage, as she was pregnant at tlie ing it and thinking that the house was being
time. The merchant thereupon went to tie broken open by robbers, rose immediately and
Judge and complained that by this wicked searching into every corner of the house, found that the thieves had carried everything off, and
deed, the son that would have been born to hin,
the son who he trusted would be a support to him was very much grieved.
in his ripe old age, bad perished. He requested Moral:- Ne sutor altra crepidam-Let the
therefore that condign punislament might be in. shoemaker stick to his last.
fiicted on the culprit. The Judge immediately
sent for the owner of the ass and asked him why xv.
he had done the deed. He stated in his defence
that he kicked the merchant's wife in the abdoA certain king of the Karnatak had a flower-men, because she had broken the leg of his ass, szarden, in which he spent most of his leisure which carried the clothes he washed. The hours. He had a minister, whose son was in the Judge, reflecting fora short time, decided that the
