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The badly-paid, hard-worked Junior servant. Gopdl Mut had a garden, in which was a stumpy and crooked mul- berry tree. AH the boys and girls of the neighbourhood were wont to come and annoy Gopal very much by climbing his tree. It would sometimes be filled with children, singing and shouting, and making a great noise. In short this tree was a source of nuisance to Gopdl and everybody around. The regular reply to the ques- tion, " Where shall we play to-day ?" was at " Gopal Mu^'s mulberry- tree." Every little boy or girl could climb it, it was so small ; and nearly every child in the neighbourhood did. The above saying is frequently cited by the under-servant in any establishment, who is constantly imposed upon by the other servants. They are so small in years and inferior in position, that everybody feels a perfect right to send them there, or command them here, or to tell them to do this, that, or the other thing. Kubis lat daicdh. A kick is as medicine to the crooked old man. 'Tis false mercy to try and patch up an old, decrepid man. Kucheh-hdnz Tcanz hyuh. Like a kucheh — boatman's mortar. A fat man. Kucheh-hdnz, a class of boatmen who pound rice at so much the kharwar for the great folk in the city. They keep boats to carry about the rice in. 117 ** Kudaris mshih doh kethah hudut /*** '* Vn dvpnam tih tii " How do you manage to spend your days with this pas- sionate man?" *' Whatever he says to me I do.** AiiytUiiig for peace and quietness. Kukaran mulch tah chhakuti. To scatter pearls for the fowls. Casting pearls before Hwiiw. Kukaras kunui zany. But one leg to the fowl. A certain master-in-trado Rave a fowl to one of his apprentices t ) kill for him. The yomig fellow killed it and cooked it ; but being \:<;eedingly hun^jry he was tempted to break off one of its legs and t it. When the fowl was placed before the master, he cn(|uired 'o reason of there being only one leg. The apprentice replied I. it the bird mast have been bom so. The master became yerj igry and went about the room botiting the joung man and sayingi VVhere is the leg ? ^Vliere is the log ?" One day, when there was a great storm and the wind blew fierce ltd cold, a cock belonging to the master was observed to be stand- i^ on one leg only. The apprentice was delighted to see this, and ■nt at once and called his master: "Sir, sir, there's anr)ther fowl t yours ^vith only one leg." The master went outside, picked up a ttlo stone, threw it at the cock, and cried •* hish-h-h-h," and tho >ck at once put down tho other leg. " There, you fool," said ho to iitj apprentice. "Ah," replied the young man, **you didn't throw t stone at that other fowl." The Kashmfri Pandit who told me this tale docs not know a word of English and extremely little Hindustani. I particularly asked hint where ho had heard it. He said tlmt he didn't know, but that ho had hoard it when he was a little boy, about thirty years ago. KuknT dapdn '* Meh kyah rdh ! liatak thulan di/uttuvi phdK^* The hen says what a wrong I have dgne! I have given heat to ducks* eggs. An ungrateful protege. Kuker kariheh nd mdn tali put en kyah karih ? Of course the hen would have self-respect (if she could); but what would the chickens do ? A good and respectable man overwhelmed with a large family, or rather degraded by it, i.e., he has to seek some inferior situation r tho boys, because he cannot afford to teach them a profession, c, or else he has to steal, ami lio, and take bribes. 118 Kiiher tackhan tah putt hechhnn. The hen scratches and the chickens learn. As the old cock crows the young ones learn. Kukp.rih hinzih latih chhih nah puti marun. Chickens do not die from the hen's kick. Spare the rod and spoil the child. Kukerih hinde batak thulo Uah kawah zdnah " titi ti T^ O duck's egg, hatched by a fowl, when will you know " titi ti ?" Don't interfere in matters unknown to you. lUti ti is the call to fowls at feeding-time. Kuhur ai Mieyi hhdrj totih sajpadih nah hhar. If a fowl eats a kharwar, it does not appear (in the bird be- coming bigger). If a man of low birth becomes rich, he does not become great. Kuhur ai thawizenmuktah deras manz taiili tih Iwyih tacliliun. If the fowl should deposit a pearl in a heap, there even will it be scratching. The man who, for his purse, or his stomach, will do any meanness. Kukur ffatsihah bah trak 1 Could a fowl become 12 traks in weight ? Can such a man ever become great ? No. Kukur yak kas half du kas. A fowl is enough for one man, but for two it is nothing. Kulah peihai zulm dafd. From the very beginning oppression is overcome. God is the beginning of the world ; the king is the beginning of the kingdom ; the husband is the beginning of the house — if any- thing goes wrong, these and nobody else can right it. Kulis khasit gudah rah. To climb a tree and spread mud over the trunk. To promote a man and afterwards dogi-ade liim. It is a favourite amusement among the villagers to climb a tree and then get the trunk plastered with mud. This causes them to como down with a run, and not unfrequently they are hurt by the sadden shock. 119 Kuni hat chheh nah gajih tih dazdn. A single stick upon the hearth does not burn. A mail is no good alone. Kunih gabih mufhi lej. \ vessel of muth for the one ewe. A spoilt only child. Muth is a species of legominoos plant. Kunih gabih shdl. The jackal (attacks) a single ewe. Au only child will die. Kunni Idt phentane ; akui phash tah rentmie ! Just enough to go round once and yet he fastens it like a grand pagri ; only just one stroke (in the water would clean it), but he wants soap-nut for it ! A poor man with great ideas and oxponsive withea. Kunui tang pup jdn^ phut hharit Jchdm nai ; garah andarich sun jdn, gdinah andarich zdm nai ; wuparah suns lek jdn, piturih sum pdminai. A single ri}>e pear is bettor than a whole basketful of unripe pears ; a second wife in the house is better than a z^un iu the vill/ige ; a stranger's abuse is bttcr than a cousin's curse. ZAm is a daaghtoi^s hasband's sister. Knr hadanas tah ijer papanai ehhuh nah kinh tih lagdn. In a girl's growing and in an apricot's ripening there is no delay. Kashmfrfs say that girls grow foster than boys. Tho growth of the latter is hindered very much by anxieties, &c. Kur chheh dsanas chhenrdwdn tah nah dsanas manda- chhdwdn. A daughter lessens the wealth of the rich man, and is a cause of shame to the poor man (i.e., it costs a lot of money to get her married into a suitable family). Khr chheh Jshur. \ daughter is as a heel (i.e., a great hindrance). 120 Kur dizih nah Ishibare. Tatih hur buchhih mare^ Siriyihhhases nawih gare. Do not give your daughter to a man from Ishibari ; Because there she will die from hunger. There the sun rises after nine garis. Gari is a space of time equal to our twenty-four minutes. The mountains hide the sun from the village until a late hour. There is a very famous spring in Ishibar, called Gupta Gangd, after Guptanat^ari, a rikhi, a very holy Hindu. He was so holy that he frequently visited Gangd, and Gangd was so pleased with the trouble which he underwent to see her frequently, that she one day said to him, " You sniffer much to see me ; now I will go and visit your village." Guptanatsari asked when she would come and where he should meet her. She- replied, " Tln'owyour cup into me and get to your house. Wherever you see this cup again I shall be there." The man threw his cup into the water and went his way. On reaching his village the following day he saw his cup floating about in a little spring, wherein he at once bathed. There is a great festival in honour of this spring every April. H. H. the Mahardjah has just issued an order for six temples to be built in Ishibari for the priests, &c., in connection with this spring. ^ur gayih lorih rus jjiyddah. A daughter is like a runner without his stick. These piyadahs or chobddrs give their orders showing their sticks, and then the demands, &c., are paid. The chobdar is of little authority without his stick. KuVy htr^ hardn pananih garih tah ihul trdtcdn Ivikah handili garih. Crying "kur kur" in your own house, but laying eggs in the house of another. Kit/r kur is the chuckling of a hen. Kuri, difpnak gori gdman^ tdri hkanjik losai hanjili Udpdn.