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out of the skin of my little brother that died, you, for I am famished after having been cooped and then I can sit inside and trundle along. up so long." I am as tight as a drum myself."
In vain the Brâhman pleaded and prayed. So his Granny made a little drumikin, and The most he could gain was a promise to abide lambikin sat inside and trundled along. By- | by the decision of the first three things he and-bye he met the vulture, who called out, chose to question as to the justice of the tiger's "Drumikin, have you seen Lambikin P" Then action. So the Brâhman first asked a pápal the lambikin called out from inside
tree that was standing by, but the pipal tree Wan pid lelkará: wan pi tu !
replied coldly :-"What have you to complain Chal, dhamkirid ! Dham! KA! Dhu!
about ? Don't I give shade and shelter to every Lost in the forest and so are you !
traveller who comes by, and don't they tear On. Little Drumikin ! Tum ! Tam! Too! down my branches to feed their cattle after
* How very annoying," replied the vulture, wards? Don't whimper, but be a man!" and sighed to think of the nice mouth- So the Brahmaņ went sadly further afield till ful he had lost, while the crafty lambikin he saw a buffalo turning a well, but the buffalo trundled on gaily giving the same answer to gave him no better answer, saying:-"You are all the animals he met, and chuckling at his a fool to expect gratitude ! Look at me! Whilst own cleverness. At last he met the jackal, but I gave milk they fed me on cotton seed and oilthe jackal was not to be done. He recognised cake, but now that I am dry they yoke me here, the lambikin's voice and said, “Oh, you've and give me refuse for fodder." turned yourself inside out, have you ? Come The Brâhmaņ sighed, but wandering on asked out of that!" Then he tore open the drumikin, the road what it thought of the matter. and gobbled up lambikin.
“What nonsense !" cried the road, "to expect No. 20.-THE TIGER, THE BRÂHMAN AND THE anything else! Here am I, useful to all, yet JACKAL.
everybody, rich or porr, great or small, Once on a time a tiger was caught in a trap. tramples on me as he goes past, and gives me He tried in vain to get out through the bars, nothing but pipe ashes and grain husks." and rolled and bit with rage and grief when he So the Bråhman returned sad and sorrowful. failed. By chance a poor Brâhman came by. On his way he met a jackal, who called out :“Let me out of this cage, Oh pious one," cried "Why, what's the matter, Mr. Brâhman? the tiger.
You look as miserable as a Jatt in a shower!" "Nay, my friend," replied the Brahman
The Brâhman told him all that had happened. wisely, "You would probably eat me if I did." "How very confusing," said the jackal,
"Not so," swore the tiger with many oaths. when the recital was ended : “ Would you mind "I would be for ever grateful, and serve you telling it me over again, for everything has as & slave."
got mixed up so." Now when the tiger sobbed and sighet and And the Brahman told it all over again, but wept and swore, the pious Brahman's heart the jackal only shook his head in a distracted softened and he opened the door of the cage. sort of way, and could not understand. Out popped the tiger and seizing the poor man, "It is very strange," said he sadly, “but it all said :-"What a fool you are! Now I shall eat goes in at one ear and out at the other. I will
* Pronounced sharply to represent the sound of beating & drum.-F.A.S.
A common baby story all over the Panjab. Told at much greater length by repeating the verses on meeting the various animals. It has been tried on English children with great success.-F. A.S.
Told with great perception of the humorous points by & Jatt boy in Chohar Khans, GujranwAlA District. I have heard it also in the Firozpor and Lahor Districta, but never so well told. The text is a free translation of the tale.-F. A. S.
The talo is found in the Gul Bakaoli-p. 11 of JWALA Parkash's edition, Merath (Meerut), 1880, well-known fairy tale, where it is introduced to point moral. The tale there told differs in no way from this one except
that the pipal tree becomes the banyan tree (Hindi bar; Panj. bohar). I am told also that it is to be found in the Bhagavall with the variation that the pipal be. comes the sandal wood tree (chandan).-R. C. T.
* Buffaloes are very dirty feeders and are constantly one might almost any habitually-fed on stable litter and farm-yard filth, fact which becomes of practical importance when it is considered that their filth-tainted milk is more than frequently mixed with cow's milk by the milk vendors in all bazars.-R.O.T.
In allusion to the eternal chillam (or hubble-bubble) of the native.-R.C.T.
Mandt hal wang Jatt jhart de: a well-known proverb in the Southern Panjab.-R.C.T.
fairy tale, where it Herath (Meerut). 1880 P. 11 of JWALA
