9«5 MALAY PROVERBS 



Anjing galak babi brani. 

 The dogs are ferocious and the pigs are daring 

 Used to signify that both sides are 'spoiling for a fight. 5 



Anak baik menantu molek. 

 A good son and a pretty daughter-in-law. 

 Used in speaking of people who are entirely of one mind. 



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Ular bukan ikan pun bukan. 

 Neither snake nor fish. 

 ( Neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, nor good red-herring/ 



Ikan biar dapat serampang jangan pokah. 



Let the fish be caught, but let not the fish spear be bent. 



To act with due discretion. 



Compare Prov. 27 in No. 11 of this Journal, and the two 

 Proverbs with which Mr. MAXWELL there compares it. The 

 familiar version of Prov. 27 with which I am best acquainted, 

 runs as follows : — 



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Ular biar mati tanah jangan lekok buloh jangan patah. 



Let the snake die, but let not the ground be dented, nor the 

 bamboo broken. 



Pokah 6&jh = to bend ; to become bent ; to be bent ; to 



