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front of his temple, reading the Buddhist scripture.’—‘ Take 
this letter and deliver it into his own hands, we pray you.’—The 
minister said :—‘ Dear son, read me the letter.’ But his son 
replied: ‘You must read it, dear father, as I do not know 
how to read.’—‘ What i > ses purport of the ‘letter?’ ‘Its pur- 
port is to bid you to go down, so that you may go to 
Mandi with the molding party.’ The minister’s wife said :— 
‘ As it is very hot, you ought not to go down.’—‘ Under the 
Raja’s orders it is ‘imperative that I should go down, for we 
shall have to go to the wedding of the heir-apparent. "_So his 
parents accompanied him to the doorway, and his dear wife 
“You must not weep, for I shall soon be back.’ So going down 
and ever down he reached Rampur, and mold :—‘ O victorious 
king! Why have I been summoned ? ’—‘ It was not for amuse- 
ment, but because we have to go to Mandi for thie Tiké Séhib’s 
wedding.’ ‘Who then will be my companion ? ’— Deli4, 
Lama of renee village.’—‘ What about my dress ?’—<O, as 
rom Mandi the Lapcho minister fell ill of the loathsome cholera. 
Journeying up and ever up at the spring called the Physician’s 
Spring,” the Lapcho minister said :—‘ O Delia, Lam& of Chango, 
bring me my looking-glass, that I may see my ace.’ g 
at his face ae and again the Lapcho minister breathed his 
last at midday 
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for the TApélio minister, Dewa Sukh by name. On his return 
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Il].—Wazir Fatt Jit’s Sona. 
A Historical Song. 
The following is an old song of the Gurkhé War time, 
when Wazir Faté Jit or Faté Ram, great-grandfather of Wazir 
Ran Bahadur Singh, an able minister of the Bashahr State, 
after holding a great assembly of the seven pargands of Kané- 
war, got rid of the Gurkhas in a very ingenious way. They 
say that his plan was to put stones from the bed of the Sutlej 
into a number of boxes, and hand them over to the Gurkhas 
without the keys, saying that it was all the treasure of the 
State, and that they could take it and quit Bashahr. This 
they agreed to do and left the country. 
Morathi lage Kydlkhart yor , 
Dum lén hond Rampura 
Stish pent a majang, khunangti ball —— 
I kagli cheshid, Karam bistu 2 
1 Changpa, of Chango, a village in aay pargan 
2 Which lies about 14 miles north of Gaura as, 
