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head; Luck begging alms; Goldic a broken-down ox." [This is fataka. No. 97.] ■

260. The Cow and the Tigress. — They are friends; each has a young one. The cow, gives its calf a cup of milk; "as long as it is unchanged all is well with me." The tigress kills her; at once the milk changes into blood. The cub and calf live together; when calf dies, cub leaps upon its pyre. Two bamboos grow from the ashes. Men cut them; from one flows milk, from the other blood. The ground is dug away, and two beautiful boys appear. [A pretty tale.]

261. The Best Thing in the World. — (Sarcastic.)

262. TJie Mischievous Boy. — (Rather funny.)

288. Mr. Knowall.—{S&Q Clouston, Pop. T. and F., ii, 4^3; I<(ithn Sar. Sag., tr. Tawney, i, 272.)

289. The Lady who became a Cat. — One-eyed bridegroom. Sesa- mum used in transformations.

290. The Opium Eater and the Demotts.—Om-Gycd demon. " Blackhead" is the demons' name for man.

291. The Wisdom of Birbal. — Quips and quirks.

292. The Kingdom of the Mice. — Mouse delivers a camel by nibbling through his halter, and wins his devotion thereby.

295. The Wily Tortoise. — Gives a ruby to a fowler that he may let go a bird; the man refuses when he gets it, and asks for another. " Show me the first", says Tortoise, " that I may see whether they match." The fowler produces it, and down dives our Tortoise with both.

297. Rajah Bhishma and his So7i. — He sleeps on a rock; a woman sits on the same place and becomes pregnant.

325. 77/1? Height of Laziness. — The editor quotes Grimm's Three Sluggards, No. 151.

326. The Lusty young Buffalo.

327. The Four Pieces of Good Advice.— 'Kdxior compares Folk- Tales of Kashmir, p. 32. (A snake sucks out its own venom. I have met with this in the Jataka book, but cannot now find the reference.)

328. The Prince who became a Kol. — Taboo against going to the south. Bathing in a tank causes transformation. Talking bed.

329. Hoiu the Sitdhu went a-thieving. — The dolt blows his sacred conch in absence of mind while he and a thief-gang were at work.

330. The Tale of Tismar Khan. — How a foolish man won his way by luck. Kills thirty flies, and calls himself the Slayer of Thirty. Frightens a tiger by a simple phrase which the tiger misunder- stood, and so forth. [Compare Grimm, No. 20, The Valiant Little Tailor. '\

334. The Physician and his Son. — A droll.