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Ada-pun pipit itu sama pipit juga dan yang enggang sama enggang 



juga. 

 " Sparrows with sparrows and hornbills with liornbills." 

 "Like to like. 5 ' 



Ada-pun manikam itu jikalau di-jatoh-kan ha-dalam lembah-an 

 sa-kali-pun naschaya tiada akan Jiilang chaJiaya-nia. 

 11 A precious stone, though it fall into the mire, does not there- 

 i: by lose its brilliancy." Kl. 1. Hk. Ab. 330. 



A man of g-ood family and well-bred, though he should be reduced to 

 poverty, will lose nothing- of his natural nobility. 



Ada-pun liarimau itu di-takut-i orang uleli sebab gigi-nia mdka 

 jiJcalau tiada lagi gigi-nia apa-kah di-takut-kan orang akan dia. 

 (t One fears tigers on account of their teeth, but if they have 

 " no teeth left, why should men be afraid of them." Kl. 80. Hk. 

 Ab. 308. 



Said of oppressors who are to be feared while they have power in their 

 hands, but for whom one need not care once their power is gone. 

 Not a proverb, but a quotation. 



Ada-pun hitam mata itu dimana-kan bulih ber-cherei dengan 



puteh-nia. 

 " The pupil of the eye cannot be separated from the white." 

 (i.e.. they move together, not independently). 



Said of things which though a complete contrast one to the other are never- 

 theless necessary one to the other. A quotation. 



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Arang itu jikalau di-basoh dengan ayer mawar sa-kali pun tiada 



akan pal el). 

 "Charcoal even though it be washed with rose water, will not 

 " become white." Kl. 2. 



" What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh."' See M. Nos. 6 & 7, 



