410 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1906. 
the father, “For what?” Said the husband, “I made the oath 
that if we hada son,I would ransom ae y @ ram, wna tail 
should be seven spans, and I can find no such ram e woman 
overheard the conversation Upsets eS aaninid. and her ‘fated 
and said, 
‘‘ Span with the span of the babe, at your will, 
nd beware of the vow that is hard to fulfil. 9 
They went and procured a large-tailed lamb, and measured 
its tail by the spans of the babe, and the tail proved to be even 
more than seven spans in length ; so they chorea ed the ram— 
and it was I who distributed its meat to the p 
XI. THE TURBANED BULLS.! 
ere was once a Qazi who had two sons; one was nimble- 
witted and anticipated the words from the speaker” s mouth,’ 
but the other was only middling. One day the Qazi called 
id to 
his sons and sai the one without N83 “Go and bring 
me two bulls with ‘thal turbans on.” “I obey,” said the son, 
and we h arket. He went all round the town 
at the gate, he left the bulls outside, and went upstairs to his 
father, and said to him, “‘ I have brought the bulls.” Said his father, 
ere are they P” Said the 60 on, “Outside.” The father 
looked out of the window and saw the bulls, turbaned as they 
Mee Face he, ‘“‘ Whence have you brought them ?” Said the son, 
turbans, I bought; but the bulls I just led away from the 
Ea Said the father, “Ah! the pains that I have taken in 
Tune education ! Go, remove those turbans and release those 
: Said th the Qazi to his second son, “ Go, bring me two bulls with 
urbans on,’ went the lad, and f found a man with a turban 
as males as a sis bane He said to him, “Of what sect 
are your” Said the man, “I ama cultivator by. Rect. ” “ Right 
together and met a second man with a bi i 
v tarban- Said the boy, 
“What is your sect ? ” Said the man, “I'm o f the Shafi z 
> ay Seot tam ‘a ca nter.”” 
this man had a turban as large as the first man’s. meni the boy, ’ 
lIn A Arabic a “ tt Sostianed b 
all” ‘ 
P Lit. * He caught the sounds as t me ‘tow ee 
bili, one whose profession is war, 
3 Qa 
vators ; here the ‘Ulama* or Shaikhs except artisans and culti- 
te, 
are soohideas in the gabilz 
