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passed the rest of the night in religious. practice.
As soon as it was morning the preceptor finished his daily routine. Then he called his three pupils. He gave to them each a cock made from flour. He: then soid to them:
"Go each one of you with your own cock in three different directions. Select such a place where no one can see you. After going there, turn the neck of the cock. Kill your cock at such a place where there should be no one who can see you."
Bending down their heads in acceptance of the command of the preceptor, the three pupils started off. They walked together upto a certain distance. Thereafter they went away in three different. directions. They returned in the evening. The preceptor asked each of them to give
