He only kept a small house with a little garden, and said that as the Gods had taken his children to themselves in the other world he would take pity on the forlorn in this.

'Feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked' says the law; and now that Seni has nothing more to give away, he goes through the city, as you know, hungry and thirsty himself, and scarcely clothed, and begging for his adopted children, the poor.

We have all given to him, for we all know for whom he humbles himself, and holds out his hand.

To-day he went round with his little bag, and begged, with his kind good eyes, for alms.

Paaker has given us a good piece of arable land, and thinks, perhaps with reason, that he has done his part.