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 Rh 309 Gidda bin magani'n gobarra. The cure for a conflagration is to have two houses. 310 Waiwaiya magani'n mantua. Keturning (for a thing forgotten) is the cure for forgetfulness. 311 Dauka'n wuya ba ya san gari da nesa. A man who is carried on some one's neck does not notice the distance of a town. As a horseman. 312 Ni da abina, ina so emba karre, emba doki. My property is my own. I will do what I like with it. 313 Kun so dara, Allah ya hanna. You wanted to laugh but Allah prevented you. Said to a man who has had bad luck suddenly. He was quite secure in his liappiness when some sudden misfortune happened to him. 314 Zona garinka mugu. Dan gujia ba mutiim ne ba. Get away, I don't want to have anything to do with you. Dan gujia, a chacha player, mostly used in the northern dialects. Chacha is not a game that a respectable man would be seen playing in public. 315 Koshi kan maida tsofo yaro. Sufficiency, a good feed, will render an old man like a boy.