Some shepherds sacrificing a goat in the country invited their neighbours. Among them was a poor woman who brought her child with her. As the feast went on, the child, whose stomach was swollen with meat, feeling ill, cried out, "Mother, I'm bringing up my insides." "Not your own, my little one," said the mother, "but those you have eaten."
*Those eager to take other people's property often resent having to return it.
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