ISO Religion &c. among the Karens. [No. 3, 



waited iu the road to intercept it. When the stone came rolling down. 

 he ran and took it up, and carrying it to the house said : " Where 

 shall I put it ? " They replied, "The house Avill break down." So 

 he put it on the ground. 



Then they devised again to kill him, and said : " Thy mother has 

 got fever, and there is no large wood to make a great fire for her, go 

 and bring some." So they sought out a large wood-oil tree, and went 

 and cut it down, and told him he must receive it on his shoulder. 

 He therefore caught it when it fell on his shoulder, and carrying it to 

 the house asked : " Shall I put it in the house?" The people re- 

 plied: " The house will break down." So he threw it on the ground. 



Then the people said : " Ah, the rock rolling on this man did not 

 kill him ; the wood-oil tree falling on him did not kill him ; but were 

 a tiger to seize him, perhaps he might die," They therefore said : 

 " Thy mother's fever continues, though we have offered fowls and 

 hogs to the spirits, but were we to offer a tiger, she would recover." 

 So the people made him go seek a tiger, in the hope that a tiger 

 would seize him. He, however, had no fear, but went in search of a 

 tiger's track ; and after finding a very old one, he followed it up till 

 lie found the tiger, which he seized and carried alive to the house, 

 when the people said : " We are very much afraid. Gro turn it loose." 

 So he took it back, and let it go free. 



While his concubine was seeking vermin in his head, she was moved 

 with compassion for him, and the tears dropped on his thigh. He 

 said: "My faithful girl, what is it? It does not rain. Why is it 

 tli at water drops on my thigh?" His concubine replied :" Ah, my 

 dear boy, people are envious of thee and laying snares to kill thee." 

 " Indeed ! "• he answered, " Is it really so? If people do not love me, 

 then I will go away." 



Every morning and evening, he worked on a bugle to give it a plea- 

 sant sound. When he had finished it, it blew out of itself, " Father 

 and mother do not love me. Brethren two go abroad." 



He said : " That is pleasant," and he prepared food for his journey. 

 A hog of five spans round the body, five bundles of salt, five rolls of 

 fish, and five baskets of rice. With this he started, and blew his 

 horn as before, till lie met with " Long-legs" planting, who had a 

 .silk-cotton tree stuck in his hair, whose shadow covered seven coun- 



