Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [August, 1911. 
Let him who has no mother pitch a tent in the grave 
yard. 
Leave your spare money for a black day. 
An olive stone will keep a jar of a hundred rottles! from 
wobbling. 
He beat me and wept, and then went about and accused 
me. 
He who has treated you like himself has not misused 
u 
you. 
A promise without fulfilment is enmity without reason. 
Low ground drinks its own water and other water as 
well 
Many trades, few paras.” 
Every age plays with its own age. 
By continual use the rope cuts the curbstone of the well. 
Food left about teaches the people to steal. 
A cockroach looked at her daughter on the wall. So 
she said : ‘‘ How nice is the blackness of my daughter 
on the white wall!’’ 
Live, Oh! Mule, till the grass grows. 
I will water you with promises, Oh! Kamoon!® 
One more hole in a strainer won’t make any difference. 
The eye of the lover is blind. 
Writing is two-thirds of seeing. 
e worms in vinegar are in it and of it. 
God gives almonds to those who do not know how to 
crack them. : 
Your tongue is (like) your horse; if you take care of it, 
it will take care of you; if you ill-treat it, it will ilk 
treat you. 
Every cock crows on his own dust-heap. 
He who makes his mouthful too big, gets choked. 
He who carries a pack-needle will prick himself.‘ 
Smart clothes and empty pocket. 
A mistress and two servants to fry two eggs. ; 
A bald girl with two combs; and a one-eyed one with — 
two phials of collyrium. 
The fly knows the face of the milkman. 
A man is a blessing in a house even though he be 
negro. : 
. Who is afraid for the cat in the larder lest the mice should 
eat her ears ? 
1 The Damascus Uby =5 Ib. 
® The {th of a piastre. 
5 A plant of the fennel kind. 
* Pack-needles are often carried, and used as goads for donkeys. 
