Note 2 — THE HERMIT AND THE FIG-TREE.
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The good wife of the house gave him a fried sprat2. The lazarillo was a mischievous urchin, and on this occasion very hungry, so he ate the sprat himself, and told the blind man they had given him nothing. The blind beggar, however, who knew the smell of fried fish well enough, charged him with the theft, and gave him a good drubbing in punishment.