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67. ANTHROPOLOGICAL SupPLEMENT. 
6, T'wo Persian equivalents for Peter Piper. 
The following are two Persian Equivalents for “ Peter 
Piper” Soar 
- is ry * é 
5: ea ot des dawg pete wlienr yd BF camel te hw Entec! 
: * e20} ue prt eens sy” we 
Imshab si shab ast hi dar Shabistin-i Sayyakh har si si-shab 
sakht shab-i sardi ’st Shaikh Shams*-’d-Din. 
Shabistan is the covered and enclosed portion of the mosque : 
eee is that portion open on all sides, the roof being supporte 
by pill 
He r oe ‘-shab means the three consecutive nights, ‘this 
night, last night, and the night oe to last night. 
s 
TI, oyajo at 538 3 me RE # od}d OLD}0 CoH POE ey 
Z buz-duzd-t buz-t duzdid duzd-i. 
‘Ajab duzd-t z’ buz-duz buz bi-duzdid. 
“From a goat thief, a thief thieved a goat 
A rare thief to thieve a goat from a goat-thief.” 
he following well-known verse gives the days of the month 
considered unlucky by the Persians :— 
oe » oe Cp—su sh 1) 20 
bee PPO SSS 
gypl_% by sy5—A~ 9 ae > *—~ 
“He ft riiz-t nahis bashad har mah-i 
2 an hazar kun ta na-yabi hich rang. 
Siu pang wsizdah ba shanzdah 
Bist u yak ba bist u char u bist u pany. 
“ Seven days are unlucky in each month. 
Avoid these if you wish to avoid ill ; 
The third, the fifth, the thirteenth, an 
the sixteenth, 
The twenty-first, and the twenty-fourth 
and the twenty-fifth,” 
D.C. Parortt, Lieut, Colonel. 
Dus. valgar for duzd, 
