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Counting the Miser's Endless Herds

Counting the Miser's Endless Herds

From D10.16, A Bramble-Grubber Reveals Farshidvard’s Guilt. It illustrates D10.16.25–32:

  • D10.16.25
    He led the troop across both hill and plain,Past countless flocks that whitened every lane.
  • D10.16.26
    Ten camel caravans filled that domain,Each with a keeper in that wealthy train.
  • D10.16.27
    Each caravan was led by a cameleer,Who tended all the camels gathered here.
  • D10.16.28
    Twelve thousand cattle next the scribe enrolled,For milk and plowing, kept in herdsmen’s fold.
  • D10.16.29
    Full twenty thousand steeds and camels spread;The meadows withered underneath their tread.
  • D10.16.30
    Three hundred thousand camel-loads were storedOf curds upon the mountains, hoard on hoard.
  • D10.16.31
    There jars of butter filled pits in the ground;Fresh curds and dried lay heaped in mounds around.
  • D10.16.32
    Height, slope, and level held wealth past account;Yet none had ever reckoned its amount.

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