Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 559
Near day-break, the pilot awoke and looked at the last stars 416 JATAKA TALES fading in the light. Halt! he called to thedrivers. We are in the same place where wewere yesterday. The oxen must have turnedabout while I slept. They unyoked the oxen, but there was no water They jumped up, and hurried… … 1 THEY BUILT FIRES AND COOKED THE RICE. for them to drink. They had thrown away thewater that was left the night before. So the menspread the awning over the carts, and the oxenlay down, tired and thirsty. The men, too, laydown, saying, The wood and water are gone—we are lost. All except the pilot.…
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