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DECEMBER, 1896.]
THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
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"In your spacious cow-pen there are two she-buffalous; give us one of them," asked the brothers.
“They are for supplying milk to the children of my bidu; let them alone and ask something else," said the Ballal.
"In the yard of your house there is a jack tree of a superior quality, bringing forth on one of its branches fruits of soft rind, on another of its branches those with liard rind, on a third unripe fruits, and on a fourth very tender ones; give us that," asked the brothers.
"I cannot gire you that," said the Balla].
"Your grandmother has got two pleasure gardens; favour us with one of them," said the brothers.
“ You, who, to-day, have asked for a flower garden, will to-morrow ask me to give you my grandmother," said the Ballal in anger.
"Ho! You have conceived the strange idea of marrying us to your grandmother!" said the brothers; and bowing low, rushed out from the hall, and proceeded on their way to a foreign country. While they wure going, the Balla!'s nephew met them, and asked them, why they were going with such angry looks from the Ball I's hall.
The Ballal hit on the idea of marrying us to his grandmother; we therefore ran out of his hall," said the brothers.
Then he went to this uncle the Ball], and asked him why those young men ran out of his hall.
“They asked me to give them very unusual gifts, at which I became very angry. So they saluted me and went away," said the Ballal.
“We must pursue them," said the nephew. So the royal elephant was sent out after them.
"If you have come on behalf of justice, on our very breasts we will let you tread; but if on behalf of injustice, we will cut you to piecos," said the brothers to the elephant.
On this the elephant returned to its stable, and the royal horse was sent after them. They said the same words to the horse as they had said to the elephant. And the horso went back to its stable. So the brothers proceeded on their way, and resolved to get back (from a plow-wright to whom they liad given them to get them repaired) some of the implements of husbandry. So they went to the plow-wright and asked of him the things that they had entrosted to him.
"The plow-tail and the plow-share have been injured by white-ants. The plow-shoe has been injured by rust," said the plow-wright.
"You had better give us our implements; it not, we will reduce you to Buddyanth's condition," said the brothers.
Hearing this he went in, and stretched his hands to the rafters of his roof, took from thence the broken plow-share, the decayed plow-tail and the injured plow-foot and threw them towards the brothers, saying :-"Let those implements which were used to farrow the eartlı, henceforwards furrow your breasts."
"Ho! thou paltry whoreson! Shall the implements used to farrow the earth furrow our breasts P" asked the brothers. So saying, Channayya Baidya held him by the head and broke his neck; hurling him to to the ground, so that he fell down on his back. He looked on his neck and on his breast, and with his silver-hilted dagger stabbed him in the breast. He vomited all his food. The wound streamed forth blood. He fled from his body to Kailầja.
