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like dogs. Later, they will start quarrelling with one another like ferocious wolves”.
. The second bout of drinking began. Now, the farmers began behaving like animals and talking to one another aggressively. They also began to shout curses and to howl execrations at one another. They began quarrelling and boxing. Satan was im-- mensely pleased to see this intensely interesting scene; and said to his messenger. “You have done an excellent job and shown your skill !” The messenger said, "Kindly keep watching. Let the third bout begin. At least now they are keeping off one another but in the third bout, they will behave like mad pigs”. THE MADNESS GROWS
The third bout of drinking began. Everyone drank to his fill and all lost their senses. They began to shout, scream and laugh. They fell on the ground and began rolling about.
The drinking bouts were over. Some of them went away staggering and faltering, each going his way. Some began going away in small groups of two or three. The host went with them upto some distance to bid them good-bye. While returning in the dark night, he fell into a gutter and he was completely covered with filth. He began muttering to himself weltering in the stinking gutter.
Satan could not contain his joy and exultation. "Surely, you have discovered an excellent kind of drink. The mistake you committed at the time of snatching the bread is pardonable but you tell me, how you prepared this wine. Surely, you must have put first into it the blood of jackals. That was why they behaved like jackals. That was why they tricked each other like jackals. Later, you must have mixed with the liquor the blood of wolves. That was why they tore at each other like wolves. Then you must have put into it the blood of pigs because they really became pigs at the end. THE BLOOD OF ANIMALS IN THE LIQUOR
The messenger said to Satan, "No, No, I never put any such thing into the liquor. I only guided the farmer to get a plenti
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