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THE PILGRIM KAMANITA
wagon. Scarcely, however, had they taken their places, when they began to hurl accusations at one another.
"It was thou who didst begin!"
"No! thou!—thou didst call my attention to him as he stood there beside the gate-post. Yes, that thou didst!—just there thou didst point thy finger at him."
"And thou—thou didst spit at him—red spittle—I had up till that time chewed no betel—I never do that in the morning"
"But thou didst call him a tramp, a lazy beggar"
"And thou a bald-pated monk …"
And so it went on; but the creaking of the wheels, as the oxen now began to pull, drowned their voices.
