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Fuk-ath en rawan wi-katti sut, yii wizivd-i wief, lovd: “ Mu’rd et 42 ba-kar 
nist. 1 Wuz yi kalandar. Agar Padskkah khizmat am var-dkad, 43 ikyid. 
Tamd wizaftsid.” 21. Ba’d khu-bath rid ba rah i cbud, rah ba biaban, 
ba’d bar daman-i-dasbt. Chandin farsang i dhad. i skbats mabain-ir yat. 
22. Ba’d az khu vorj-ti 21 kbbavd. I sowar az wi ruya yat, skbbats zimb- 
ti khhavd. Tar yak digar en snkhan child. Lovd : “ Eb vrod ! mubarak 
safar. Tu tar ka ’t 26 ikbtiyar chug] ?” Yii lovd-e: “ Wuz am 14 khiz 
mat-i-Padskhah rawan, baz-i-sufed-ird rawan-am 44 .” 23. Yii lovd-e: 
Tu ism-sbarif ehiz P” Lovd: “ Wazir-bacbab.” Yem vao wi pekbst-e ; 
yii lovd : “ Ala-aspa.” Ba’d lovd : “ Yet, katti sao-am.” Yii lovd: “ Tu 
kbu tsem bidhem, khu pits tar zabo kin, wuz yet-am.” Yii kbu tsem i 17 
bidbemd, kbu pits tar zabo i child. Pale gaskbt, yii wi khez-ande. 45 
24. Ba’d en katti sat, kbu toid-en. Sat i daskht-ande. Cbandin rab 
en dkad, taskbna en sut, guskbna en sut. Ba’d en wum daskbt medhen- 
ande kbbavd. Lovd : “ Eb vrod ! yi lav tuskba ziwedk.” Tuskba i zwast, 
dar-rao kbed-ao en cbud. 25. Ba’d tuskha en kbiid, lovd : “ Tu tari ta= 
masba sao, yi zir-i-zir bon vareye, mash skbab-panah kinam.” Ba’d Wazir- 
bacbah nust, et Ala-aspa sut. Tar wi daskbt khel-ak charkh i cbud. Heck 
chiz-ath maujud na sut. Ba’d ikyum-ande nafas i nust. Dastba-duha 1 i 
cbud, kbu kal khambind-i; kbu kal i sind, cbuskbt-e : Kila. tayar sudhj, 
darwaza bet-atb. Rawan sut, tar kila deid, tamasba i cbud, kbu wizivd az' 
kbu jai-te, 21 sut tar kbu bamrab kkez. 27. Lovd-e r Eb vrod ! i zir-bon 
am viid, nur-skbab sao-am, yum-ande skhab-panab.” Ba’d en sut, deid-en 
tar kila. Lovd : “ Eb vrod ! yii zir-bon kaiyi ?” Lovd : u Zir-bon-i kam 
vod ?” 28. Sat-en, ziz en vud. Yiw dar-rao yats pedbed-ir sut. 46 Yiw 
pis-skbats sut. Ba’d ab ta’am en sat. Khhiid-en, kbu vorjen darakbt- 
khhana en vust. Cbustj et wokht en lacbiid. 
29. Skbab en yum-ande skhovd, sahar Ala-aspa lovd-e : “ Wuz gbiew 
sao-am, tu netb.” Yii tuid gbiew, yem nust. 30. Wazir-bachab khhu- 
rak i pukbta kbu’r chud. Kbu-batb kbbud et wi baskb bigbin i child, khu 
lachud-i. Kbu-batb yat, kbu bistar-te khu pattewd-i. Zaman vod, dive 
sada cbud. 31. Yi cbiz-i.yak-wajabi deid kbu naglijid tar kitsar. Yi tar 1 
burut 16 i kbu’nd piked, wi dbost et padb i vust, pattewd-i. Kbu-batb wi 
42 Terminational pronoun of the 2nd pers. pi. 
43 Yor “ var-dhad-am,” Past Tense of compound verb.. 
44 Here the terminational pronoun (1st pers.) may also be said to replace the verbal 
substantive, as vctivun is a (verbal) adjective, and not a. part ot tbe finite verb. 
45 Here is a case of tbe suppression of the verb substantive after the ordinary- 
pronoun yii, similar to its suppression after the terminational pronoun at above (note 41). 
46 Lit.. “ went to the lighting.” This Dative form seems equivalent to the other 
chid -ao sut . Wo may perhaps take the former to be the full form and the latter to be 
