He next called Bauakas and the cripple.
“Would you be able to recognize your horse among twenty others?” he asked Bauakas.
“ I would,” he replied.
“And you?” he asked the cripple.
“Come with me,” the judge said to Bauakas.
They went to the stable. Bauakas instantly pointed out his horse among the twenty others. Then the judge called the cripple to the stable and told him to point out the horse. The cripple recognized the horse and pointed to it. The judge then returned to his seat. “Take the horse, it is yours,” He said to Bauakas. “Give the beggar fifty strokes of lash.”
When the judge left the court he went home, Bauakas followed him.
“What do you want?” asked the judge. Are not satisfied with my decision?”
“I am satisfied said Bauakas,” said Bauakas. “But I should like to learn to know how you knew that the woman was the wife of the scholar, that the money belongs to the butcher, and that the horse was mine and not the beggar’s.”