1S76.] V. A. Smith— Popular Songs of the Hamirpur District. No. II. 287 



He catches people by the top knots, and *clean shaves them — armpit, 

 moustache, and beard, 



Leaving a ronnd tonsure on the head, he points off the side locks, 



By clean* shaving he fills his belly, neither field nor garden has he ; 



With his bundlef under his arm and his brass water-pot in his hand, 

 he gets his living. 



VI. 



The Kol's Song. 



IStt sr^^ *reft f^T TT?rt ^w *r ^t^ wT*rf€ tfhft 



W^ ^^ ^3 «fHf «TPnr ^Rf^ ^1fT m^ JI^T iW 



Behold the ways of the dwellers in the woods ! 



In hills and caves they dwell, never neither for night nor day build the 

 Kols a wall, 



In men who abide in towns and villages never will they put trust, 



The camp of travellers they always plunder, regarding not the law of 

 God nor man ; 



In dreams even, corn they never see, wood fruits they eat — so their 

 life passes. 



Among the Kols the Chief is he whom all men united cannot subdue. 



VII. 

 The Nat's (Juggler's) Song. 



%W 311^ *TZ TT^T f^^T^fT 



^Urf 5i^T %T^T *SW W5.K W4l f^^> ^TrT W\^\ WTW* 

 The Nat plants a bamboo pole and shows off his dancing; 



* Munrd = 'clean shaved', with a double entendre. 

 t Peti means the same as chliurdnri in line (2) of this song. 

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