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If the master comes, you will certainly be found out, for nothing

ever escapes his keen eyes." Presently, sure enough, in he came,

and made a great to-do about the way the Oxen were kept. "The

beasts are starving," he cried; "here, give them more hay, and

put plenty of litter under them." As he spoke, he seized an

armful himself from the pile where the Stag lay concealed, and at

once detected him. Calling his men, he had him seized at once and

killed for the table.

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