Once upon a time, there lived a poor Brahman who had a wife. As he had no means of livelihood, he used every day to beg from door to door and thus got some rice which they boiled and ate, together with some greens that they gleaned from the fields. After some time, it chanced that the village changed its owner, and the Brahman bethought himself of asking some boon of the new lord. So one morning, the Brahman went to the lord’s house to pay him court. It so happened that at that time, the lord of the place...
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