I am well contented with Fate . With good luck , a keen eye , and the custom of considering whether a creek or a backwater has an outlet to it ere you ascend , much may be done . '' `` Once I heard that even the Protector of the Poor made a mistake , '' said the Jackal viciously . `` True ; but there my Fate helped me . It was before I had come to my full growth -- before the last famine but three -LRB- by the Right and Left of Gunga , how full used the streams to be in those days ! -RRB- . Yes , I was young and unthinking , and when the flood came , who so pleased as I ? A little made me very happy then . The village was deep in flood , and I swam above the Ghaut and went far inland , up to the rice-fields , and they were deep in good mud . I remember also a pair of bracelets -LRB- glass they were , and troubled me not a little -RRB- that I found that evening . Yes , glass bracelets ; and , if my memory serves me well , a shoe . I should have shaken off both shoes , but I was hungry . I learned better later . Yes . And so I fed and rested me ; but when I was ready to go to the river again the flood had fallen , and I walked through the mud of the main street . Who but I ? Came out all my people , priests and women and children , and I looked upon them with benevolence . The mud is not a good place to fight in . Said a boatman , ` Get axes and kill him , for he is the Mugger of the ford . ' ` Not so , ' said the Brahmin .
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Brahmin Ghaut Gunga Mugger Protector Right bracelets days flood rice-fields