Consul: “You are quite sure?”
Answer: “Five months.”
Consul: “Do you, then, know this boy I I? Have you seen him before?”
Answer: “I do not know him at all.”
Here the entire auditory roared with laughter, and expressions of admiration at the sentry’s lying powers were given vent to.
The sentry, continuing, stated that possibly I I comes from H H H’s town. Anyhow, he (the sentry) does not know I I; he does not know him at all.
Here F F F stepped out and said he was full brother of I I; they had lived here always. Their father was U U U, now dead; their mother is also dead.
Consul (to the sentry): “Then it is finished. You know nothing of this matter.”
The sentry: “It is finished. I have told you all. I know nothing of it.”
Here a man giving his name as I I I, of K K*, the neighbouring section of R**, came forward with his wife.