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Old Deccan Days: XXIII. How the Three Clever Men Outwitte...

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THERE was once upon a time a very rich man who had a very beautiful wife, and this man's chief amusement used to be shooting with a bow and arrow, at which he was so clever, that every morning he would shoot through one of the pearls in his wife's nose-ring without hurting her at all. 1 One fine day, that was a holiday, the Pearlshooter's brother-in-law came to take his sister to their father and mother's house to pay her own family a little visit; and when he saw her, he said, 'Why do you look…

Old Deccan Days: XXIII. How the Three Clever Men Outwitte...

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