“Well, and if it is a grandson I will pay for a new red robe for the goddess, but nothing will I do if it is a girl!” He went out in agitation because he had not thought of this thing, that it might be not a grandson but a girl, and he went and bought more incense, although the day was hot and in the streets the dust was a span’s depth, and he went out in spite of this to the small country temple where the two sat who watched over fields and land and he thrust the incense in and lit it and he muttered to the pair, “Well now, and we have cared for you, my father and I and my son, and now here
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