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Paudir chased it with all his might. At last he got the tiger and 

 dragged it home with him by the ear. 



When he reached home and Ma' Andih saw the white 

 headed sparrow and the old he goat with the long beard and 

 the tiger with his striped fur, she said, " Where are the hajis 

 and the lebais and the common people ? " 



And Pa 5 Pandir replied, " This with a white headisahaji, 

 this with the beard is a lebai, and this in the striped jacket is 

 one of the common people : for that is what you said." 



Then Ma' Andih exclaimed, "111 starred Pa' Pandir, 

 accursed Pa' Pandir, may you die an evil death. You call a 

 white headed sparrow a haji and an old he goat a lebai and a 

 tiger a common man." 



Pa' Pandir said, " Really I never thought that that was a 

 sparrow or that a goat or that a tiger.*' 



Then Ma' Andih ordered him to let them all go. So Pa' 

 Pandir set them all free. The result was that Ma' Andih had 

 to call the people herself and only then were they able to have 

 the feast. 



Afterwards when the seventh day had arrived Ma' Andih 

 planned another feast. Ma' Andih said, " It is now seven 

 days since our child died we ought to make a feast. W T e must 

 get a buffalo this time in order that we may make a proper feast 

 to our child. - ' 



Pa Pandir replied, "I will carry out just whatever you 

 think is right." 



So Ma' Andih said, " Go and look for a buffalo." 



Pa' Pandir replied, "Very well." Then he said, "What 

 is a buffalo like ? " 



Ma' Andih replied, " Whatever you find eating grass, is a 

 buffalo." He went off towards the rice field. There he found 

 a man busy using a tajak, (a heavy weeding hoe) whose sharp 

 edge ate into the grass. When Pa' Pandir got up to him, he 

 said, "Ho sir, will you sell this buffalo'?" 



The man replied, " This is not a buffalo." 



R. A. Soc, JfOt 48, 1907, 



