56 MALAY ptioyehtcs. 



127 { ji»\ ±*j J*ij>* jjtf \~**\ *\)\ j$j"J> jsJ iS^ 



Sudah tidak ter-sudu uleli angsa y baharu di-beri-kan Tcapada iteh. 

 " When the goose won't have it, it is given to the duck." 

 Said when a woman of bad character on a second marriage falls to man of 

 lower rank than her first hushand. 



Something- that animals refuse is a common simile among Malays for 

 something completely worthless. Tiada ter-jilat uleh anjing, tiada ter-sudu v.leh 

 itek. " That which a dog would not lick or a duck put its bill into." " Good for 

 " nothing." Cf. M. 9. 



128 .) V >j,yj> (J^* Jj->^> *yj> fau ilta »«Ui 



Sudah clap at gading ber-tuah, tandok tiada her-guna lagi. 

 " If you have got a lucky piece of ivory, you don't want horn" 

 (i. e,, for making the handle of a Tcris). 



If one has the best that can be obtained, one has no use for an inferior 

 article. If a man is engaged to marry a rich and pretty wife, he is not likely to 

 take one less desirable. 



Favre, following Klinkert, has chindei instead of tandok and translates 

 the proverb thus : " When one has the magic ivory, the snake chindei is no iong- 

 " er formidable.*' The sense of this isnot apparent, and tandok, which is the ver- 

 sion common in Perak, is no doubt correct. If chindei is the word, it means a 

 kind of striped silk cloth used as a waist-band, but even so the antithesis is lost. 



Cf. Hiking buntatber-ganii intan. 



129 Jy ^\5j> ja\j sju>j J^s ^jLus^j \j$ 8j^ 



Sudah gaharu chendana pulu. 



'■ We've done with eagle-wood and now it is sandal-wood 

 •' again.' 1 



Repartee to one asking something which lie ought to know and is believed 

 to know already. Sudah tahu ber-tanya jjufa. "You're asking what you 

 "know already." 



SungguJi ber-janggut tiada ber-jobah. 

 ■■ He has ihc beard truly, but not the robe " (of the learned 

 man). 



Be is not what he professes to be, 



