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"And there came a day when they put their heads together. And they understood what donkeys they had been.

"And next day, when the Merchant came, only one Man went forth. And he said ’Oh, thou of the hook-nose and the goggle-eyes, thou of the measureless beard, how much for that lot of eggs?’