"then i asked for another offering, and the calf was brought. it too looked at me with tearful eyes, and i had not the heart to kill it, but gave it to a cowherd, and told him to bring it back to me after a year. he kept it with his other cattle, and one day a young girl who saw it began to laugh and cry. on this the cowherd asked her reason for such conduct, and she replied: 'that calf is not really what it appears to be, but is a young man, and his mother was the cow who was sacrificed some time ago.'