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 Rh 392 Kurum bakka, amaria ta hadie kasshe. Silence, indeed, as a bride who has swallowed a bone on her wedding-day. 393 Daji ba kari chi'n wiitta ba, fara ba ta yi ma yar mvatata berk a. While the bush is still burning the locust does not congratulate its friend. Do not cry out till you are out of the wood, 394 Chan gasso gadda, zoiiio ya ji kiddi'n farauta. There where the gadda is the hare hears the sound of the beating of drums. Antelope are driven by a large crowd of shouting people who beat drums, &c. At any rate the hare is warned in time. It is an ill wind that blows no one any good. Gadda, the duiker. 395 Koenna funtu zashi, da sanni'n mairio^a. Wherever the naked man goes, the man with a coat knows where he is. A naked man is always conspicuous. 396 Kadda mu yi sara'n itcbi da mutum bissa. Don't let us talk of him, there he is. 397 Ido ba ma gani ba, sai hankali ke gani. It is not the eye that understands, but the mind. 398 Man rua ya sha kai, shakirra muburmi. If water is up to your head the buttocks are like a muburmi in a masekhi. To plunge deeper into the mire. Muburmi, the small calabash used to bale water out of a larger one. It would usually be at the bottom. Shakirra, the buttocks.