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is written by the hand of Laid a Kayasth in the village of B 



to the brave Khan Saheb the salaams of Jhoot Singh to-day date 

 the 27th May. 



(5) To the exalted, etc., etc. 



Be it known to your honour that the letter of your honour 

 is arrived at me and before your honour's presence the kind 

 appreciator of worth brave exalted one, the petition of this 

 dependant is that the word of which your honour writes is only 

 falsehood and lying word without doubt it has been made by 

 some my enemy and how shall I tell lies to your honour and 

 I have always placed your honour's orders in my heart thereby 

 how shall I render helping to this saheb but day and night am I 

 engaged with great cleverness and astuteness and make much 

 endeavours according to your honour's orders but these sepoy 

 people are in these days become very cunning and so my work is 

 being spoiled and they are continually looking to my direction 

 and giving deceits to me in such a manner that neither by 

 disturbings of ndlas nor by taking away of helas by night which 

 is a dangerous work nor by placing of cloths nor by filling sand 

 in waterpools nor by beatings of patels and shikaris nor even by 

 setting fire to open jungles nor by any kinds of clevernesses is 

 that remaining any more success but this is a true word that only 



two three other tigers have been killed. Further the reason 



of the killing of the big tiger of Karoa was thus-wise that by 

 chance one Jat sepoy had tied a hela in some distant jungle and 

 the tiger had eaten it and lay in rocks and so one Jaglia who is 

 giving me help he was going there quickly and driving away 

 the animal, but coming back he met that sepoy and that other 

 the Mussalman, so they caught him and beat him with much 



strength so that he is lying helpless in his house. Further 



because of my well knowing all that jungle I knew where that 

 animal's home remained and where he was doubtless gone to lie, 

 so I told the saheb and persuaded him by many words and eating 

 of oaths that all the roads of that tiger were known to me and so 

 took him to beat another jungle where by reason of the smallness 

 of the bushes a tiger remains not ever, in addition that tiger had 

 left no footsteps, so the saheb agreed. Further by reason of 



