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 The Man and the Ewe

A man was working one day in the fields where he would keep his ewes. While working, he became hungry, so he decided to kill and eat a ewe. He did not have a gun, so he could not shoot it, and he also did not have a blade, so he could not cut it, but he did have his hands, so he grabbed the ewe and commenced to strangling it. However, while doing so, the ewe slipped away, and the man had to chase it all over the field. Several times he caught the ewe and commenced to strangling it, but several times the ewe slipped away. Eventually, the man caught and killed the ewe, so that he could eat, but not before someone of the house came and saw what was going on. Hearing the ewe’s bleeting and seeing the distressed carcass that was now ready for preparation, the member of the house called to a house servant saying, “Bring me a wooden pole that is padded with rubber and cushioned with cloth between the wooden and rubber layers.” The house servant then did so, and handed it to the member of the house who had witnessed the atrocity. The house servant then commanded the man who had been working in the field to come forward, and he did so. Upon arriving within the physical presence of the house member, the man spoke to the member of the house saying, “What is it that you wish from me?”. The member of the house then commanded the man to sit upon his knees and hold his hands forward. The man did so. The member of the house then said, “Because you have caused that ewe great distress in her death, which will still care and nourish the body of others, so too will you be caused great struggle in your life which will still be one that provides for others. Now hold out your hands”. The member of the house then took the wooden pole and struck the man several times on both of his hands until they were sore and highly inflamed. The man cried in agony, but the member of the house shed no blood in the discipline, and then proceeded to say, “You may no longer eat in this home unless you are served, and if you are asked to do something, you will do it without question under the laws of the home as you will still be held to the same accord as all others who reside here, but if you take, harm, or commit any act that goes against what this house stands for or what I have commanded you, then you will be banished from this place, and never allowed to return.”

After that day, the man would help with tasks as his hands would allow, and over a time, with his hands healed, he continued to serve in the home. However, never again, was he allowed to prepare meat for the home or hunt in the lands that the house oversaw. Any meat given to him was the meat he was allowed to have, elsewise, he was given plants and non-blood foods to subsist in his role as a servant, and from that day onward, he served the house until he had passed thereby dying in the home as the ewe had in the field.