![]() ![]() ![]() It is he who punishes every robber in this whole land. As one side was made mpassable I have led my ass along the other, and will you seize it because it has taken a mouthful of grain? But I know the lord of this property it belongs to the chief steward, Meruitensi. Then the peasant said: "I am going in the right way. Then said Dehuti-necht: "See, I Will take away your ass because it has eaten my grain." Will you, then, not let me go by?" Upon that one of the asses took a mouthful of grain. ![]() The bank is steep and the path lies near the grain and you have stopped up the road ahead with your clothes. Then said Dehuti-necht: "Look out, peasant, do not trample on my clothes!" The peasant answered: "I will do as you wish I will go in the right way!" As he was turning to the upper side, Dehuti-necht said: "Does my grain serve you as a road?" Then said the peasant: "I am going in the right way. The peasant came along the path which was the common highway. Then he spread this shawl upon the middle of the road, and it extended, one edge to the water, and the other to the grain. Then said Dehitu-necht to his servant: "Hasten and bring me a shawl from the house!" And it was brought at once. cloth, and upon one side of it was the water and upon the other side was growing grain. The house of Dehuti-necht stood close to the side of the path, which was narrow, not wide. Then said this Dehuti-necht, when he saw the asses of this peasant which appealed to his covetousness: "Oh that some good god would help me to rob this peasant of his goods!" He came to a point opposite Per-fefi, north of Medenit, and found there a man standing on the bank, Dehuti-necht by name, who was the son of a man named Iseri, who was one of the serfs of the chief steward, Meruitensi. This peasant set out and journeyed southward to Ehnas. ![]()
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