butler's fault that the fly had dropped into the king's wine,
but the baker had been guilty of carelessness in allowing the
pebble to get into the bread.[152] Likewise it appeared that
the butler had had no part in the conspiracy to poison the
king, while the baker was revealed as one of the plotters,
and he had to expiate his crime with his life.[153]


 
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