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The Price of Not Lying

A woman came to the burning ground at night with a dead child, and the keeper of the ground recognised them both, and told her the fee.

King Harishchandra had never told a lie in his life. Not a small one. Not once.

The sage Vishwamitra decided to find out whether that was really true, or whether it was just that nothing had ever cost him anything.

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