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each envying the other his share in the booty, secretly put poison in his food, so they both died, and the merchant was saved.

[Occurrences in Barlaam.— Only in Heb. , c. 27, but certainly Indian.

Indian Original. — Vedabhha Jataka, ed, Cowell, No. 48, i. 121-4, Kashmir version, tr. Knowles, in Orien- talist, i. 52-60,

Parallels. — Cosquin, Contes de Lorraine, No. xxx. (Cf. notes i. 287-8.)

Derivates. — Persian, Attar, Macibat Nama, tr. Ruckart, Z.D.M.G., xiv. 280-7 (tr. Warner, Prov. Pers. Cent. , Leyden, 1644, p. 31) ; Arabian Nights, tr. Burton, ii. 158 seq., and supp., i. 250 seq. (cf. Orientalist, i. 4.6-7) ; Tibetan Schiefner-Ralston, 286-7 ; Chaucer, Pardonere's Tale; Ciento Novelle Antiche, Ixxxiii. (libro di novelle, Ixxxii. ) ; Morlini, Novellm, xlii. ; D'Ancona, Rappres Sacre, ii. 33 seq. ; Fabricius, Cod. Apoc. Nov. Test. , iii. 395 ; Robles, Leyendas Moriscas, No. I ; Hans Sachs Braga, Cantos, No. 143 ; P. Paris, Man. Franc, iv. 83 ; L. Hunt, Death and the Ruffians.

Literature. — H. D. Francis, Vedabbha Jataka com- pared with the Pardonere's Tale, Camb., 1884, 8vo, pp. 12 ; R. Morris, Cont. Rev., 1881, i. 738 ; Academy, 22nd Dec. 1883, 12th Jan. 1884; Tawney in Jour. Phil., 212-8 : Glouston, Pop. Tales, i. 379-406 ; Chaucer Society, Originals, 129-34, 415-36; Skeat, Chaucer, iii. 439-45 ; Griinbaum, Neu£ Beitrdge, 279- 82 ; Kuhn, 82.]

A rich man had once a young gazelle. As it grew up it began to long for the wilderness. So one day it went and joined a herd of wild gazelles,