THE BRAHMIN AND THE GOAT
A Brahmin liacl been to a town to buy a goat for sacrifice, and was feturning with it on his shoulders wh.en he was seen by three rogues, who determined to obtain his goat. They ran ahead of him, and seated themselves at the foot of three treesi •‘Why do you carry that dog, master?” said the first. The dog, it must be unde:stood, is regarded as an unclean animal by the .Brahmins. “Dog!” was the indignant reply. “It is no dog at all, but a goat!” The Brahmin came to the second rogue, who made the same remark. This time the Brahmin took the goat from his shoulder, looked closely at it, and, replacing it, proceeded on his journey. But when yet a third man said the goat was a dog the Brahmin doubted the evidence of his own eyes, threw down the annua l , washed himself clean from the pollution of the supposed dog, and hurried off home. The three roges then seized their prey, and cooked and ate it.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 September 1925, Page 20
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