Wherefore Bashti replied: "I have lived long and eaten many pigs.

What man may dare say that the many pigs have entered into me and made me a pig ?" He paused and cast a challenging eye around the circle of his audience; but no man spoke.

Instead, some men grinned sheepishly and were restless on their feet, while Agno's expression advertised sturdy unbelief that there was anything pig-like about his chief.
"I have eaten much fish," Bashti continued.

"Never has one scale of a fish grown out on my skin.

Never has a gill appeared on my throat.