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TODA :She gives us presents; cloths and three rupees.
 * The women cut their hair, and stand before her.


 * Marriage Song.


 * Boys and girls are singing.


 * Much money are they spending.


 * To the girl her father is giving five buffaloes.


 * The husband tells his wife that she must curl her hair.


 * If her hair is curled, all the people will rejoice.


 * The buffalo is slain, and now we must all dance.


 * Why are not more people here? More should come.


 * My buffalo is big, very big.


 * Go quickly and catch it.


 * The Todas are all there. They are standing in a row.


 * Who will run, and catch the buffalo first?


 * To him will a present of five rupees be given.


 * I will go and catch it first.


 * The Todas are all fighting.


 * The Todas are all feasting.


 * People give them rice.


 * The buffalo is coming. Two men run to catch it by the neck.


 * Ten men collect the buffaloes. They pen them in a kraal.


 * At one o'clock we take our food.


 * The buffalo is running, and I hit it on the back with a stick.


 * It swerves aside, but I drive it back to the path.


 * Night comes, and we all dance.


 * Next morning at ten o'clock we bring out the buffalo, and slay it.