II.

And he began to beat him. And Anadan said: “Have mercy on me, and I will be a shepherd.” And Arkirie said: “Thou hast acted towards me as the wolf who followed the sheep and met the shepherd, who said to him: ‘Thank thee.’ And he asked him: ‘Whither art thou going so fast?’ And the wolf said: ‘I follow the track of the sheep, for an old woman told me that the dust of the sheep was wholesome for the eyes.’ In the same manner hast thou acted against me.”