1921. ] Three Tibetan Repartee Songs. 315 
. Man, Boy. Bring some red fire, I will smoke some 
SW set ‘tobace co. 
ring a small square cushion, I will reflect deeply. 
3, tk 
the middle. 
Have you pethaps become certain of a South-Valley 
bamboo ? 
O you pretender of a pipe! The stalk is broken in 
Norte 11.—The whole of es 3 means only: have you found another 
aa heart whom you prefer 
4. B, foe a single sinetal of tobacco, good sweetheart, 
do not a ae 
During my S yanaetinds in the wildortisaa it was even better 
than the padi sweetheart. 
O primeval igi Score of the Upper-Valley, 
irandtable Great-place-goo 
The river flows shinsetsabenaly, the Nyangté of the long 
golden basin. 
Nore 12.—This mountain is said ¥ be on the road to Lhasa a day 
and a half beyond Gyangtse. Nyangti, or Ngang-ti, said to bee aes 
village on the eastern bank of the River a near Dotigtan: e- 
een Gyangtse and Shigatse, situated in a valley which looks, ese 
me of the “apices ha like a pee basin, or the river itself a 
fa base of the mou 
6. Please sing a song in a sungla tune (such as) of one 
with a isiodions voice . : 
More melodious than the pa sing-song over there 0 
the man reading Padma’s revelat 
Note 13. ai. one of the ts tunes in which poems can be 
recited. 
7. G. If for the bent of my throat I get some pure 
water from the pure pas oe 
There is Bonne I eae sing in the way of songs 0 
own invention 
8. B. That the finger-ring is a — of iron and cop- 
per is truly kindness of the belov 
et, though I am inclined to slip it on, there is one reason 
preventing me to speak the final word. 
9. If the turquoise is to be set in the ring. it is now 
the time to set it. 
f not, that small turquoise of flawless quality will not 
remain long. 
10. B. Ihave made ies there at the upper att of the 
lake a dam as strong as a : 
In the lower part of the lake a golden-eyed fish was left, 
shedding tears. 
