section 267. If a shepherd has been careless and in a sheepfold caused a loss to take place, the shepherd shall make good the fault of the loss which he has caused to be in the fold and shall pay cows or sheep and shall give to their owner. section 268. If a man has hired an ox, for threshing, twenty _KA_ of corn is its hire. section 269. If he has hired an ass, for threshing, ten _KA_ of corn is its hire. section 270. If he has hired a calf (goat?), for threshing, one _KA_ of corn is its hire. section 271. If a man has hired oxen, a wagon, and its driver, he shall give one hundred and eighty _KA_ of corn _per diem_. section 272. If a man has hired a wagon by itself, he shall give forty _KA_ of corn _per diem_. section 273. If a man has hired a labourer, from the beginning of the year till the fifth month, he shall give six _SE_ of silver _per diem_; from the sixth month to the end of the year, he shall give five _SE_ of silver _per diem_. section 274. If a man shall hire an artisan-- (_a_) the hire of a . . . five _SE_ of silver (_b_) the hire of a brickmaker five _SE_ of silver (_c_) the hire of a tailor . five _SE_ of silver (_d_) the hire of a stone-cutter . _SE_ of silver (_e_) the hire of a . . . _SE_ of silver (_f_) the hire of a . . . _SE_ of silver (_g_) the hire of a carpenter four _SE_ of silver (_h_) the hire of a . . . four _SE_ of silver (_i_) the hire of a . . . _SE_ of silver (_j_) the hire of a builder. . . _SE_ of silver _per diem_ he shall give. section 275. If a man has hired a (boat?) _per diem_, her hire is three _SE_ of silver. section 276. If a man has hired a fast ship, he shall give two and a half _SE_ of silver _per diem_ as her hire. section 277. If a man has hired a ship of sixty _GUR_, he shall give one- sixth of a shekel of silver _per diem_ as her hire. section 278. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant, and he has not fulfilled his month and the _bennu_ sickness has fallen upon him, he shall return him to the seller, and the buyer shall take the money he paid. section 279. If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant and has a complaint, his seller shall answer the complaint. section 280. If a man has bought in a foreign land the manservant or the maidservant of a man, when he has come into the land, and the owner of the manservant or the maidservant has recognised his manservant or his maidservant, if the manservant or maidservant are natives without price he shall grant them their freedom. section 281. If they are natives of another land the buyer shall tell out before God the money he paid, and the owner of the manservant or the maidservant shall give to the merchant the money he paid, and shall recover his manservant or his maidservant. section 282. If a slave has said to his master 'Thou art not my master,' as his slave one shall put him to account and his master shall cut off his ear. * * * * *