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 BOSE The domesc animals o! the villera are cows buffaloes, horses, sheep and goats. The lwr elase the people keep pigs, fowls and ducks. The cattle are small in e/,a. It is s matter of much regret they are not properly taken care oL In ome villge there are common plots of land for grag; but lSture grounls are very rare, eslally in summer. The tollowing things coast!tute the furniture .of an ordinary viilaser; a few tron or brass utensils, earthen vessels, mats two khata's or cord of the least made of tate leaves, one or bedsds, and last though not importance, a barrd (broomstick). In a rich man's house, besides these a few more articles are seen. These are pestle and mortar for cleaning rice and pulses, 'one grindstone for grinding spices, and several bellmetal pots. The ordinary dress of a villager consists of three items; one dhuti or cloth reaching as far as the knee, One short cost and a head dress which is a cap. or more usually a turban made of a small chadar. In winter well-to-do husdmsn wear a big chadar. A coarse sari forms the entire dress of a woman; sometimes she puts on .a small jcket. One charpoi and an earthen pot containing fire placed beneath it--these two constitute the principal luxury of the poor people in rinter nights. - In villages, far from the towns, money, plays a minor lrt in ordinary transactions. The villagers seem to be fsmili mostly with two kinds of money, rupees and piee (kaown s kncha). In stone places villagers have been found who refuse to accept to sams or four anna 'pieces. The local term for two piee is tkka. When the vegetable deaJer wants one takka for half s seer of potatoes s new comer may get startled and may believe that s rupee is wanted for the pottS. '