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Parrot, nothing has happened to me. I call to mind my 
wedded wife three times a day. What can I do ? Rewa and 
Parewa never leave me for a moment. How can I go ? ” Then 
the parrot gave him the paper from its neck, and Dhola read it. 
In it was written the whole affair from the first. In the mean- 5 
time the parrot kept prattling much, and saying “ Ram Ram.” 
Prince Dhola was a little angered, and meanwhile Parewa saw 
all this and told it to RewA. Then RewA and Parewa brought 
Dhola into the house. From inside Dhola began to call the 
parrot, which at first did not come, but afterwards it came and 10 
sat upon his thigh. When the two sisters learned all this, they 
began to quarrel exceedingly with Dhola, and to say, “We will 
not lot you go from here.” Then they cooked and gave him to 
eat and drink, and Dhola leaving the parrot alone went outside, but 
Rewa also went with him, but, on the other hand, she had taught 15 
Parewa, and what did Parewa do, but she took the parrot, and began 
to burn him in the fire-place. When its feathers began to burn a 
little the paiTot pecked Parewa’s finger so that she let him go, and 
straightway he flew away and seated himself on a turret of the 
palace. Prince Dhola also observed all this, but what could 20 
the poor fellow do ? He carefully warned the parrot, and wrote 
this upon paper ; — 
“ Grieve thou not, and be not mournful in thy heart, 
I Prince Dhola will come on the day of the feast of the 
Dasahra to my home in Fort Naraul.” 25 
This paper ho tied on the neck of the parrot, and said “ Parrot, 
go thou and say that I will also come after by the Dasahra.” The 
parrot took the paper, and saying Ram Ram flew away, and came to 
that place in the forest where the twelve thousand parrots and he 
had first met. There he whispered into their ears the initiatory 30 
formula, and became their spiritual preceptor, and early next day 
flow and flow to Fort Naraul, and came to Princess Maru’s house. 
When Maru saw him she began to ask him all the news, and the 
parrot told her all from the beginning, his adventures on the road, 
and all about Dhola and Rewa and Parewa. He then gave her the 35 
paper and said “ Ram, Ram, Lady Marii, now grieve thou not. 
Prince Dhola will come home by the Dasahra.” When Princess 
Maru heard all this she became very joyful, and gave the parrot 
excellent ghi and sugar to eat, and placed him in a golden cage. 
Then she began to watch the way for Prince Dhola. 
