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24 81 Aboki'n gammi'n masa suré.
 * Māsa, baked cakes; we should call them pancakes.
 * Suré, a herb used in their seasoning.
 * Exactly the same meaning as 79.

82 Tumbi ba shi ki'n sanfo.
 * The guts don't refuse (or object to) a basket.
 * Same meaning as the last three.

83 Dei-dei dei-dei kunua'n doki.
 * A case of six of one and half a dozen of the other.

84 Halli zani'n duchi ne, ba mai iya shafewa, ba mai iya shafeyshi.
 * Disposition (or a man's nature) is like the grain of stone, no one can rub it out or efface it.

85 Albassa ba ta balli'n rua.
 * The nature of an onion and water are different (though one grows by the help of the other).

86 Kowa da rananshi, mai ido daia ya léka buta.
 * Every one has his peculiarities, a man with one eye squints down the mouth of a buta.
 * Buta, another word for gora, a water bottle.

87 Halli ya rigaya foro, halli'n mutum kowa da nasa.
 * A man's disposition, or nature, precedes his education, and every one has his own.

88 Tun randa akayi ginni, ranan akayi zāni.
 * The marks on the mud wall are made at the same time as the wall.