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Killing the snake, it came outside. Divi had pots of brass full of water on her head. She saw the face and other parts of the body of the mungoose 'sprinkled with fresh blood.
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Devi thought 'This wicked goose has killed my son, to be sure. Wild animals should never be trusted.'
She lost all sense of wisdom or patient thinking because of her attachment for her son. Tears filled her eyes due to imaginary shock. As soon as she came near to the mungoose, her pain was turned into anger and without thinking anything, she threw the pot on the small mungoose and then crushed it by a stone lying nearby.
Then she entered the house. What she saw there startled her. The boy, her son, was asleep peacefully, and just near him the pieces of dead snake were scattered. She became restless as she learnt the
