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A Orammar of the Chhattisgarhi dialect. 
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(till it comes again). Go, go, Diwdli to your home, and let tlie 
spring blow up its dust.* (19). 
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Cowboys at play. 5 
I was playing at (crushing pulse in) millstones, and was trim- 
ming Bangali betel leaves. Your body and coat are the same, 
but your appearance is all changed. (20). 
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The parrot has eaten up all the ears of corn. The straw is 
tottering. Drink the milk of low-ground (pasture), after first 
arranging {lit., twisting and lifting) your moustache. (21). 
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Mount on the elephant Mah’manti'i, and on its forehead grasp 
the goad. (Your cow) the wife of a great man, will kill the lion and 
eat her lunch. (22). 
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The pen shakes, the paper shakes, and the letter is not sent : 
when I remember (my love), my bosom bursts and my limbs totter. 
(23). 
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You make very delicate cakes of cowdung-fuel and your locks 
are curly. O fair one, you are yourself beautiful. How old is your 
husband ? (24). 
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• The Diwall is aii Autumn festival. Phaguu is a Spring month. 
