They replied, "Shall we kill him, though, while your husband is away?"

She said, "Take him, yes, take him, for my husband will be only too

pleased when he knows for what purpose the ox has been slain; and he,

too, desires a son."

So the youths took away the ox and killed it and feasted and made merry.

After three days the husband returned, and when he did not see his ox in

its stall he asked his wife, "Where is the ox?"

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