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The laughable stories collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar Hebræ

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STORIES OF THIEVES AND OF ROBBERS. I 69<br />

and took his cloak and went and sold it, and thus the<br />

two of them did until the master of the house left no<br />

garment at all on the thief not even his loin-cloth.<br />

And finally when the thief woke up and found that he<br />

had nothing at all wherewith to cover his body, he<br />

said to himself "Why should I fear the master of the<br />

"house? For he hath eaten of what belongs to me<br />

"more than I have eaten of his." <strong>The</strong>n he went, and<br />

woke him up, and said, "Give me something where-<br />

"with I may cover myself, so that I may turn and de-<br />

"part; where is my clothing?" <strong>The</strong> master of the house<br />

said to him, "Where am I to get it to give thee?<br />

"Consider,<br />

now, what we have spent and what we have<br />

"eaten. On the first day we ate the price of thy upper<br />

"tunic, and on the second day the price of thy lower<br />

"one, and on the third day the price of thy cloak, and<br />

"on the fourth day the price of thy loin-cloth. If thou<br />

"wert able to drink more than what thou didst eat,<br />

"why didst thou not inform me? For I did not prepare<br />

"food for thee."

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