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HirSlal Kavyopadhyaya and G. A. Grierson — [No. 2, 
Family 'pride. 
My father has eaten clarified batter, smell my hands (to see if it 
isn’t true). (15). 
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5 Euined. 
The earnings of my whole life are lost in a swindle. (16). 
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Not loorth it ! 
A horse worth ten mites, eats grain worth forty mites. (A 
10 mndU is ten times five cowries. A dogdni is worth forty times five 
cowries). (17). 
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Labour tvasted. 
The buffalo-calf is blind, and you hobble its feet. (18). 
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Undiscriminating rage. 
He slips on a rock in the forest, and (in revenge) splits the 
grindstone at home. (19). 
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20 Se adapts himself to circumstances. 
When he has (wealth, he wears) a waist-cloth; when it goes, he 
wears a rag. (20). 
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Counting chickens before they are hatched. 
25 Neither bi-idegroom nor wedding, and he’s pounding rice for the 
chhathi. (The chha{hi is the ceremony performed six days after a 
child’s birth). (21). 
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Unreasonableness. 
30 Not a drop of oil, not a frying-pan and he is shouting for 
fritters (22). 
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A bad workman complains of his tools. 
He doesn’t know how to dance, and says it’s the pavilion which 
35 isn’t level. (23). 
