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Rh 18. Bhare ho mat bharo.

Don't fill the full.

19. Bhát chhuráve sáth.

Rice separates companions.

20. Jahán gur, wahán makhí.

Where there is sugar there are flies.

21. Andherí rát chor yár ko suháwaní.

Thieves and libertines love a dark night.

22. Jangal men mor náchá kis ne dehhá?

Who sees the peacock dancing in the forest?

23. Billí he bhág ko chhínhá tútá.

It was the cat's luck that net broke (and she got the contents).

[Chhínká is a net containing food hung up to the rafters out of the way of cats, dogs, ants, &c.]

24. Sánjhí kí handiá chauráhe men phúthe.

The joint-property pitcher broke at the four cross-roads: (because each partner wanted to take it his own way).

25. Bhádon kí dhúp Ját ko bhí faqír kare.

The autumn sun turns even the farmer mad.

26. Ab jo mará, us ko ro.

Weep for him that is just dead: (limit your sympathies).

27. Kangál kí jorú sab kí bharjáí.

The poor man's wife is everybody's sister-in-law: (all chaff her: no self-respect).

28. Abhí dulhe beron ká kuchh nahín gayá.

The plums have only just fallen: (you are yet in time to retrieve your loss).

29. Ab ke nmre ab dabbe gae.

The dead have been buried.

30. Ab jis ká biyáh hai, us ke sohele gáo.

Sing songs for the present marriage: (keep to the point).

31. Na kág, na hans.

Nor crow, nor swan: (nor fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring).

32. Hans kí chál chale kág apne bhí bhúl gae.

In aping the swan's the crow forgot his own manners.