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selfsame thing, and added: ‘This shall befall thy
lord on his way home. He shall come upon a white
bed on the road, and he shall desire to rest wpon it,
and the moment he rests upon ithe shall burst ; and
whoever hears and tells him of this thing shall become
stone right up to the neck!’” And with these words
he leaped from the horse, and the horse became stone
right up to its neck. “That therefore, my master,
was why I did what I did, and I pray thee pardon

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me.