When the other scholars carried their pocket-money to the fruit-sellers and confectioners at the temple-gates, he would buy geese, and, when his mother sent him a handsome sum, young gazelles, to offer to the Gods on the altars.

No noble in the land owns a greater treasure of charms and images of the Gods than he.

To the present time he is the most pious of men, and the offerings for the dead, which he brings in the name of his late father, may be said to be positively kingly." "We owe him gratitude for these gifts," said the treasurer, "and the high honor he pays his father, even after his death, is exceptional and far-famed." "He emulates him in every respect," sneered Gagabu; "and though he does not resemble him in any feature, grows more and more like him.

But unfortunately, it is as the goose resembles the swan, or the owl resembles the eagle.

For his father's noble pride he has overbearing haughtiness; for kindly severity, rude harshness; for dignity, conceit; for perseverance, obstinacy.