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Rh mouth. As she was pouring it over his hands, she said : " Brother, would you keep a request from me?" " What's it, " asked the brother. " By my head you will have to." " You naughty thing, why not tell me ?" " Say you will do it." " First tell me what it is." " You'll eat my head if you don't I beseech you, I fall at your feet." " Well, I agree that I eat thy head and you fall at my feet — but what is the matter can you tell me ?" Nimi then placed the fingers of one of her hands within those of another, bent her head, and looked at them intently ; then she looked at her brother's face and then looked to the ground till at last she broke out « Shall I call the Bow ?"* Jivananda picked up a the brass pitcher and aimed it at his sister's head, exclaiming in feigned anger : " Give me back the child and I shall give thee back the rice and dal that I have taken. You monkey of a girl — mischievous wench how dare you speak of things to me which you should never mention ?" Nimi said : " I grant that I am all that you say, but shall I call your wife ?" " 1 am off," said Jivananda and made for the door. Nimi bolted it and stood before it. "You must kill me, " said she, " before you go. You shall not go with- out seeing your wife."
 * A brother's wife is called a Bow.