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His daughter called out : " Father, thou hast given me up now. 

 Thou hast cut off the gigantic creeper, and I can no more visit thee." 

 Her father heard these words, and he also heard his grandchild. 



"I visited grandmother, I visited grandmother; grandmother gave 

 me an egg to eat : I visited grandfather, visited grandfather ; grand- 

 father gave me a fowl to eat." 



He heard the voice of his daughter and the voice of his grandchild, 

 and he dived down into the water time after time all day, but found 

 nothing, and returned home at eve sorrowing. 



DllYADS AND OkEADES. 



The elders relate that Mount Kie-ku, in the Bghai country, 

 and the peepul Tha-ka-u beyond the seas engaged in war. 



It arose on this wise. The peepul had a daughter whose name was 

 Bu-ban, and the mountain had a son whose name was Phai-thau-o ; 

 and the two were married. After the marriage, she came and lived 

 with her husband's family. 



She was possessed of miraculous. powers, and did not pound paddy. 

 She would take a single kernel of rice, and split it in two, and then 

 throw one half into the rice bin when it was filled with rice immedi- 

 ately, and the other half she threw into the rice chatty which became 

 filled with rice in the same manner. 



Her neighbours were envious, and mount Bai-tha-lu seized her, and 

 gave her to mount Po-phau ; and mount Po-phau gave her to mount 

 De-pha-ho ; and mount De-pha-ho put her in the stocks, which still 

 remain. There she sat, and wept, and blew her nose ; and the marks 

 of her finger nails, where she wiped her hand on the rocks, are yet 

 visible. 



The peepul, Tha-ka-u, became very angry with mount Kie-ku on 

 account of treatment his daughter had received, and made war with 

 him. 



The peepul being in the sea, made the crocodiles his soldiers, and 

 mount Kie-ku's soldiers were thunderbolts. When they fought, the 

 peepul made the waters rise, and soften the earth, and the crocodiles 

 thrust their tails into the ground, so that the sides of the mountains 

 slipped down. At each land slide, they would say : " There dies an 

 officer." 



