Once there were two young men, very good friends, who were unhappy because neither of them had been tattooed.18 They felt that they were not as beautiful as their friends.  
One day they agreed to tattoo each other. One marked the breast and back of the other, his arms and legs, and even his face. And when he had finished, he took soot off the bottom of a cooking-pot and rubbed it into all the marks; and he was tattooed beautifully.
 
The one who had done the work said to the other:
 
“Now, my friend, you are very beautiful, and you must tattoo me.”
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