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but came back at night. And henceforth it used to join the herd every day. This at last was noticed. And the servants of the rich man followed it on horseback, killed many of the wild gazelles, and drove back the tame one, which they ever afterwards kept chained up.

[Occurrences in Barlaam. — In Arab., Georg., and Gr. (Z. xiii, , L. p. 130, C. 446). Not in Hebrew, which substitutes "Greedy Hound," ix.b. q.v.l

IX.b. The Greedy Dog.

In two neighbouring cities a marriage was to be held on one and the same day. A greedy dog who knew of this determined to attend both wedding breakfasts. He set off early for one town, but arrived too late, and when he went to the other the feasting was over, and he only got blows.

[Occurrences in Barlaam. — Only in Heb., c. xvii., where it is substituted for "The Tame Gazelle."

Parallels. — Æsop, Dog and Shadow (Caxton, ed. Jacobs, Ro. i. 5).]

X.a. The Two Halves of a King's Life.

A prince being born during the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, astrologers prophesy a change in his life. When he succeeds he lives in great splendour till middle age. At a great feast, surrounded by his most costly ornaments, he thinks of looking at himself in the glass, and sees his grey

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