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 34 NORTH INDIAN PROVERBS.

123. Km hi mitti kue men lagti hat.

The mud out of the well is spent on the well.

124. Ghar hi roti^han ki gdti.

The wife weeps when the outsider sings : (said to the debauchee).

125. RaTie sdkhj.de Idkh.

The promise has remained though thousands have gone : (carrying through the work at any cost).

126. Sir munddke din imchhnd.

Get your head shaved first and then ask what day it is. (Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, especially Sundays and Saturdays, are unlucky days for shaving the head).

127. Rdni ko Rand piydf^d, kduni ko kdn ^nydrd. The lady loves her lord, and the hen crow the cock.

128. Mard hd bachd ran se nahin bhdgtd. Warriors never run away.

129. Dushman mard bald tale.

When the enemy's dead the evil's averted.

130. Gangd Dds he Gangd Das, Jamnd Dds he Jamnd Dds. Ganga Das's son is Gangu Das's, Jamna Das's son is Jamna Das's ;

(allusion to the hereditary nature of all occupations in India).

131. Jasjiwan, apjas mar an. Kighteousness is life, wickedness is death.

132. Phuthi hdndi par haldi hd ponchd. A wash of tin over a broken pot.

133. Pdni men ndh dubdo.

Put your nose in the water : (be ashamed).

134. Kdm sikhdve khdu. Business teaches inexperience.

135. Tin bulde terdh de, dekho, yahdn ki rit ! Bdharwdle khd gae, ghar ke gden git.

Three invited thirteen came, see what they do in this place ! The outsiders eat the feast and the home people wail.

136. Rdmjharoke baithke sab kd mujrd le : Jaisijd ki chdkari, waisd wd ko de.

Ram sitting on his judgment seat hath mercy upon all ; As each man's service, so reward doth unto him befall.