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 Saraami, 1870.] TEE TWO BBOTHEBSr A MASIPURl STOBT. 203 think! ni: r in ce as might parhapa chnaao Mm fur her litwbftftd Ou the appointed Jny king* 1 kwciuul> together Erom every side, aud the uioiv-limu put on kin gold and silver una- mODt« lad Haaania want with him, taking a rant lu («il upon* aud they each oat down in appointed place. Then the prince**, with a garland of flowers iu her hand, 01 ttood In ill- initial nf An assembly, and each of the kinds' sons Imped that alio might choose him. Basaulu was fritting nn ■>th behind thu merchant, and as ' oess came near, Ae hint hoped she might choose him ; but she passed him bj, and pat thu garland on Hie- u saying she nhose hiiii for her husband. Whim tho kings' sons saw it, Any all laughed at tho prineesa'a falhar because she bail rcjooted tlieui and ftJaOSftik * onininon slave ; and ho was so ashamed t; I ^hrated the marriage at onofl, and gave his daughter what she had U> receive, and aunt her off with her husband. .mrnhant told .Basonta to bring the mat he was sitting on, and Aey all three want away tt> Ae boaU Now An merchant bod privji-, ly determined to kill Basanm. and marry tho king's daughter, so ho ordered his servants to posh out into thit middle of the river, wbeit Stream won running wry strong ; and when they had reached a Tory wide river, where thu car* ront was moitt impntumi-., the nwrohmii gave ,ta a lord and told hiiu to draw soma , and a* he was stooping over tin- tfdfl d the boat bo pushed him intr> tho water ■ rinoassftw iU and he WSS weeping nmeh loO Ikww her bnahend a pillow, which he caught, and it supported him. Tho merchant told Basaum's wife that he fad to keep her to wait ' bfcn t hot alio wax much distressed and (old him bOl her for three yearn, and after that alio a nil, The merchant tratmiied In r much, and n to seise her, but aho pray. he might ha smitten with I and die if ho aia *o; mid honWi'-d. •], lA xn y | r on-- mmld believe that jtlw wH*. «*!'*"■■ her hmmatidwa* dead and would nuver return s ao ho took hnr tnto, sup- ported ou Ao pfltoW and h the waves, bad strum to share, and was drying landed lived an old oonplu of tftoofe, nnd tho fAd*l and flaw Baaantm She called i<- I uo answer, ao abu Wmt rod told her huaband ttiat a man was d fed/, and I boA went and lifted him up, and took hi: thuir own honae, where thuy Lighted a uru end act him Tursv it. iin-y liftii bften for a long tima much <4o they hail nn aon, and they v, iahed to adopt Basunla, so thi>y peranaded him to remain in thuir house. In An meantime Baaanta'^- - ?s* of grief, gave up eating and slwpln-: enmo mneh emaeiated, and tlin mereliant ftg a-ikod her to 1» his wife, but whe rufuaod end tuld him DOt to touch her for three years or hu would In? i to axho»; hu thought uu ouo else OOOld Baeny her, bo when he reached heme be made her live in a separate h and put a guaiil over her, nnd kupt bur wiA groat care. And all Ibifl timo the waMheruuiu and his wife treated Baaanta vuiy kindly. Now Tari was king of the country where they Vwc^ t and An meruUum n iiu«ted him to unlor each vilhige in torn to supply men to guard hia wife ; I when it came to Ao tarn of the d village to supply a man bom '.very two honaoa the huadmun ordered Au washerman to go. But BasanUK when ha heard of i<, go in hia phieo, and be and thu Ott iman and sat iu the house wlurre BasantA,'* wifowoa,and talked tngether, and Ao Other bated Baaanitt to Ml bim a talo. Uawuita luwl rooogniaed his wife, bat hu was [nhOfCd him: ao he to ttillull in. i «, sod when ha wife, who waa lying on th« bad, heard him (nil how bo hod swum to ahure inpported b pilbw which his wife hail thrown bim, ihn ' hu* waa her huvbond, and she esld she had ,1 much to God, end he luid promised to rcatore hhu to h.s- ; end ban to rolam bis atory next -in> in t -'"g When the morning earn* she told *«nt thai she wishi i 'ore tho king, to hear a riorj » was on gnard I md ahe promised to marry Ac in. r a* soon aa ahe had hcoxd it. Be WW bet prnrniau, ^ni u, tit to the kn oak him to give notiw tiuit a «ory would be to ld; -o, ewi every ooe eeseo ■he story, aitking in his appointed