A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

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4o8 Growth of Plutocracy
his guilt. Let him provide against ill befalling the household,
against sickness, against hunger; let him ply them
well with work, he will more readily restrain them from
evil and others' possessions. If the steward is unwilling
to do wrong, he will not do it.
not his master suffer him to go unpunished.
If he has tolerated evil, let
Let him grant
a recompense for good service, that others may be pleased
to act rightly.
Let the steward be not a gad-about, always
be sober, go abroad nowhere to feast.
household busy and give thought to having his
Let him keep the
master's
orders obeyed. Let him not fancy that he is wiser than
his master. The friends of his master let him hold as
friends to himself. Let him pay attention to the commands
that have been given him. Let him perform no
sacred rites except at the cross-road or on the hearth at
the feast of the cross-roads. Without the order of his
master, let him extend a loan to no one. Let him exact
the payment of loans extended by his master. Let him
grant to no one a loan of seed for sowing, provisions,
spelt, wine, oil. Let him have two or three households,
to whom he may make requests, and grant articles to be
used; but let this be the Hmit. . . .
A cure for If anything is dislocated, it will become sound by this
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spell. Take a green reed three or four feet long, split it
down the middle and let two men hold it to the hip bones.
Then begin to sing in different measures, " The Healing oj
the Fractured Hip:"
"Hip, Hip, Hurrah!
Though you're broken sore, I trow,
You will come together now.
Hip, Hip, Hurrah!
Bones are crushed and far apart
Come together by our art."