Take a big dog." "I will have the white master's dog," Nalasu persisted.

"Only the white master's dog and no other." The matter was at a deadlock when Bashti chanced upon the scene and stood listening.
"Take the dog, Nalasu," he said finally.

"It is a good pig, and I shall myself eat it." "But he has broken the taboo, your great taboo of the laying-yard, and must go to the eating," Agno interposed quickly.
Too quickly, Bashti thought, while a vague suspicion arose in his mind of he knew not what.
"The taboo must be paid in blood and cooking," Agno continued.
"Very well," said Bashti.

"I shall eat the small pig.

Let its throat be cut and its body know the fire." "I but speak the law of the taboo.