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 Rh 296 Sliigga uku goro (gobro) da yaye. The bachelor with a weaned child has treble trouble. Yaye, anyayeshi, he is weaned, his mother has stopped suckHng him. 297 Hauka sania ta ga malka, ta yi gudu. The silly cow when it sees rain coming runs (though it is useless to try to escape it in that way). 298 Ido ba mudu ba ne, ya san kima. The eye is not a measure, but it knows what is small. Kima, probably from the Arabic «uJ, price ; its signification here is " small." 299 Dabbenka ya ji makubba. To receive the finishing touch. Dabbe, the beaten pebble floor of a hut. Makubba, the water in which the pods of the dorowa have been boiled or soaked. This water is used for putting on a floor or dabbe to harden and blacken it. The dabbe is a good floor, but when makubba is put on it is really good. 300 Tsuntsu da ya kirra'n rua, shi rua kan diika. The bird that calls out for rain, the rain strikes it. It gets more than it asked for. 301 Sabo turki'n wawa. -? Familiarity with a thing is the tethering stick of a simpleton. 302 Idan kunni ya ji, jikki ya tsira. If the ear hears the body is saved. If you do as you are told you will not be punished.