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JUNE, 1895.)
THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
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And they became quite angry, and went through the gate, and entered the house by a small door. They stood there, touching the walls, and holding the roof of the house, and weeping bitterly. Their uncle's wife, sayina Baidyati, asked them :-“What is it, children? why do you cry?"
"If we had our mother and father, they would have allowed us to go and play, and come Fack," said they.
So their aunt called her husband, and told him to let the children play, and to let them go. "Let them go and play, and come back," said she.
Then Uncle Sayina called them, seated them on the swinging cot hung from a rafter, and gave them permission to go and play and come back. In this way he told then to go and play.
* You have told us to go and play, but you have not told us how," said they.
"O my children, you know how to play, but you do not know the toys," said their uncle “Go to the bank of a river, and get round and heavy stones. Go to the bushes and get some palle berries; a basket full of them. Go to the thorny shrubs, and get some kaninja berries. Go to the prickly shrubs for kadenjekai berries. Go to the reeds, and get some bundles of thin canes. Go to the bell-metal smith, and get some small bells of bell-metal. Go to the blacksmith, and get a shield for your dagger, called Rama Kengade."
They got all the toys in three days, which ordinarily required about twelve days to make.
"Toys are ready for the play, uncle ! We go to the play, uncle! We go to the play. Listen, Uncle Sayina!" said they.
They pat on their dresses themselves. "Children, go and play happily," said Sayina Baidya. Then they went and asked some boys if they might join in their play.
"We do not tell heroes, who wish to come, to go away. And we do not call to any heroes who are going away! If you like, you may come and play!" said the boys.
Channayya Baidya and the boys played together, and he was beaten by the boys.
“O boys, please lend me a palle berry and one leaninja!” said Channayya. “No debt is allowed in the play-room. No chunam is to be given even to a brother. There is no defilement in the refuse rice! No interest for two tára," said the boys.
"Köţi, my brother! do you get me a palle berry and a kaniñja."
“Brother, will you play with a single palle and a kadenja ?" said the brother, and gave him a single palle and a kadenja berry,
In the second game Channayya defeated all the boys. "Channayya, lend us a palle and a kadenja !" said the boys.
Then Channayya Baidya said :-*.There is no debt in the play-room,' you said to me. That is the beam you have put up and this is the rope we have placed on it," said he.
Channayya tied them all together and left the play-room. “The heroes, who came to-day, must come to play to-morrow also," said the boys.
Channayya threw stones, round as a ball, at them. A cry was raised, and an outcry of women, too. The boys' mother at Buddyanda's house sent a man across to them saying: - "Give my boys a palle berry and a gajjiga."
"We will not give them even a pie found on the road ; but if they come to Erajhs we will present them with many muras," said Köți and Channayya.
She would not listen to this, and made a maid-servant take the berries by violence, beating the brys.
