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Rh He could not run fast, so Khobul-dêi catches him. The stag said to the mêrgên (hunter), "Thou hast killed all my people. When thou killest me, give my flesh to the seven-four animals, and lay my head in the valley of the Khunk." Having said this, the stag died. The mêrgên gave his flesh to the seven-four animals; they ate, but did not eat it all up. The head he laid in the valley. When they came there was no head; in place of it lay Êlguin ulan khada. —(The same as above.)

The River Tes was a bride; the Askhuit was her bridegroom. In the place where they meet lies a peculiar cliff, the Tunchē Tologoē. Tunchē is the name given to the tent that is erected for a newly-married couple. The cliff is so called because it is there that the two rivers enter into marriage.—(A Khotogait man.)

The River Tes is a foal, and the beautiful River Têrkh (flowing into the Chagan nor) a beautiful maiden.—(A Khalka man.)

(Continued from vol. iii. page 366.)

The Panther and the Kid.

ERY long ago the Bodhisat was reborn in a certain village in the Magadha country. When he grew up he abandoned worldly pleasure, adopted the life of a holy recluse, and attained to the supernatural knowledge arising from ecstatic meditation.