ט אמר רבא שפיר קאמר ליה
9 — Rab said: I was sitting before my uncle<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Hiyya. ');"><sup>8</sup></span> and he said to me, It is no unusual thing for a man to say to the workman, Sell my garment for me.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence it is possible to suppose that the tailor by mistake sold another man's coat and then gave that other man one to go on with until he should recover it, and since the tailor acted knowingly he may use it. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> R. Hiyya the son of R. Nahman said: This rule holds good only where the workman himself [gave him the coat], but not if it was given him by his wife or his sons.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the presumption is that they made a mistake. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> And even so he must not use it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'we do not say'. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> unless the workman says, Here is a garment,' but if he says, 'Here is your garment,' he must not use it, because this is not his garment. Abaye said to Raba: Come and I will show you a trick of the sharpers of Pumbeditha. A man will say [to his tailor], 'Give me back my cloak [that I gave you to repair].' The other will deny all knowledge of the matter.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'there were no such matters'. ');"><sup>12</sup></span> 'But,' the owner will say, 'I can bring witnesses [to declare] that they saw it in your possession'. 'That was a different one,' he will reply. The owner will then say to him, 'Bring it out and let us see.' To which he will reply. 'To be sure! I don't bring it out.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As if to say, 'I refuse to show you someone else's property.' Herein lay the deceit. ');"><sup>13</sup></span> Raba said to him: That is very clever of him,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., to say that he knows nothing about the matter, and not to plead that he has bought it, since then the fact that it or one like it has been seen In his possession would militate against him. V. Tosaf. s.v. [H] ');"><sup>14</sup></span> seeing that