442 Specimen of the Kirdnti language. [No. 5. 



day ana, wa wancha mi syu (or su) ma giwo niotime bwa. Naka ga 

 wa ram khome bwagne, i kamdi mara kheda syu ke kam di ra data 

 (or mota). Mekeding ryamnipo khyim ding glutana chiwachadaiimi 

 a ri tamtameko, myem simtameko, kopo ke di chotha dimtame. 



Mekeding hopomi a wancha bretako, mota, yem i ryamnipo, 

 dwakti kkedda chyaro, dwaktikbedda plyenti giwo (or plyenotako) 

 daso data. 



Translation of the specimen of the Kirdnti language (Bahing dialect). 



A certain person went to his prince to complain of a man who 

 was in the habit of coming constantly to his house to make love to 

 his wife, but whom he could never contrive to identify. To his 

 sovereign he said, ' relying on your justice, I appeal to you to have 

 this man arrested.' The Rajah thereon gave the petitioner a phial 

 filled with scented oil and said to him, ' give this phial to your wife 

 and caution her at the same time not to give it to any one.' The 

 man did as he was bade and the Rajah, when he was gone, instructed 

 his spies to look after the matter and to seize and bring to his 

 presence any person they might detect coming from the plaintiff's 

 house, whose clothes had the scent of atter. 



By and by, the lover finding an opportunity went, as before, to 

 his mistress who rubbed the atter on hi3 clothes and said to him. 

 ' My husband desired me to give this atter to no one, but you are 

 my life, my soul, how should I refuse it to you ? If you like it j 

 take it. I can have no other use for it.' 



As the lover, thus anointed with atter, thereafter left the house 

 of his mistress the spies of the Rajah who were on the look out 

 for him, seized him and carried him to the Rajah. 



The Rajah thereon sent for the woman's husband and said to 

 him, ' this is your wife's lover. If you please, kill him : if you 

 please, let him go.' 



13. II. Hodgson. 



October, 1857. 



