The village chief:🔗

Tomorrow come to his hut and I will show you how angry he will be. The next day morning the farmer went near the sage's hut and watched. A boy apparently sent by the village chief approached the sage. The sage was writing something on the palm leaf. The boy went behind him and spat on him. The sage looked back, saw that it was the boy who did it,

got up and took a dip in the river and came back and sat. The boy spat again and the sage went and had a dip again. The farmer could not bear to see what was happening. The village chief was standing behind a tree and watching as well. He was surprised at the sage's calmness. Every time the sage returned from the dip, the boy spat on him. Every time the sage smiled at him, got up and went and dipped. The boy had spat on the sage for 107 times. He could not bear it any more. He fell at the sage's feet and cried.

Boy:

Please forgive me. I have sinned. I harassed you in this manner only because I was paid to do so. I am afraid that you might curse me now!