Note 13 — PREFACE. (continued 3)

Of re-thatching a house. Supposing that a house has been thatched and the owner finds that the thatching is defective and removes it, when the diviner priest sees it done thus, he will say: “The owner of the house will not remain long therein before he goes away, some one else becoming the occupant thereof.” But if a king be the owner of the disparted house the prediction will have no bearing;13 it only affects the house of a commoner.