R. Tarfon was beaten by his superintendent, who finding him in the vineyard took him for a trespasser, he not telling who he was through his meekness.
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no. a man overheard a dialogue between two dead women in the burial ground who foretold the future. He profited by it. On other occasion he overheard that one of them was buried in a red carpet. His wife blamed the mother of the dead woman for it. From that moment the dead spake no longer in his hearing. v
111.-112. The story of the three men one of whom stole the money belonging to the others. They were brought before King Solomon who detected the thief by the story of a betrothed girl who kept her oath to visit her first beloved, and was sent to him by the man she was now forced to marry, decked in jewels. She was waylaid by a robber but was allowed to go free when he heard of the magnanimity of the second bridegroom. The thief praises the magnanimity of the robber who had not deprive her of one jewel thereby not showing his greed for the other's money.