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II. THE STORY OF THE GAY WIFE, HER STEP-SON, AND A 
labourer. 
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3 5; u Up ;y E <tsu)u - 5j i>A y 1 1 <£*& yy y ^ a 
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l fj* ,0 ^Ad yji - 3 °^'A ^ iiA c; - x J y* w b - ‘ *A) J 0 ; l/ 9 y&) y^ 
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5 j " ^ ^ oA A ^ y& ^ ^ *1 5 b j 9$ ) of* 10 Lf;U E ^ ^3^1 j 
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y^ y^ y - c/ ob^” *— y= os^ 1 ^ Lf ^/ ^ >* Lf 1 3 ^ ^ ^ 
^.*4 iW - 1j ^£> ^kci ^.i i; A 5 ^ A Fljj jJl^f jjt& tj J cJl^j Aui o<^A 
9 “ S ' , 9 9 9 _, 
^ b /* ^ ^ ~ oAb ^ ^ ^ y o^ J ” l5< ^ = 3 9 1 ^ ^ 
y Or' 1 y ^y * 1 &***<> ^^j ljk. j i*& ji^, - j \j d/c IaJ o^ 1 "^ <i ’ l * , ~ 
1 A corruption of the Persian, 
2 ^_j O anc j in Pushtu are frequently interchanged. - jk ~ . 
s j> before a substantive in the possessive case is usually omitted among Orakzais and Afridis. 
+ The use of ^ with the past tense of (JOtj , although of course entirely irregular, is not uncommon among 
members of the above two tribes. 
f> See Note 3, page 356. 
6 See Note 2, page 356. 
1 An adverb peculiar to the Afridi and Orakzai dialects. 
8 ii) = to, an Orakzai form of the postposition. 
v See Note 2, page 356. 
10 A common corruption of ^ = road. 
It Peculiarly Orakzai. An Afridi would say ai o.^.f . 
12 y^.j = . 
18 = ^io : commonly abbreviated as above. 
* tjis c , husband • used more commonly among Orakzais than ojjlA or c ,ilA.Us. 
u See page 356, Note 4 (above). 
1 The Orakzai and Afridi dialects frequently confuse genders, especially in the use of ^_o and .4 ( and . 
AiUL-j. See page 365, Note 12. An Orakzai will generally use the word in its above shortened form. 
