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yi tsirao naskhtist. Wi dha tar skhats, wi jan naskhtist. Agar pinj-dana 
wi tsa kini, wi na mird. Yiw ki az def yiw at kliata de 38 na chud 5 ° a yii 
ta mird.” Yii def kaulen i ba jai chud. Yii mud. 
50. Ckil wi skhidz mekhh-ir vod. Wi zokht, dive-en dar-rao het 
chid sut. Fuk-ath i het chud, yiw reid. Yet, wi mis het i chud et deid 
tar-am. Yi khub-rui tar-am. Na khher tar warn dakhhl, na mest. 51. 
Ya dar-rao niwd-ao sut, lovd : “ Eh jawan ! tu chiz-ar khu zaya kini ?” 
Yii lovd : “ Sadaka yak tar mui tu. Tu tarod chi’r kini ?” Lovd-e : 
“ Wuz am wuvd-sala vod, yak-wajabi mu tsift, khu vud-i tarod muhkam 
i chud.” Yii lovd-e': “ Mubarak ved, wuz am wi zid.” Ya lovd-e : “ Wi 
zid-ao asan nist ; pinj-dana dadhgad wi tsa kini, yii na mird.” Ala-aspa 
lovd-e : “ Te-am, ches, wuz am wi zid.” Dhost-ande injuvd khu yeten. 
Chuskht-e, mughj. 
52. Ba’d skhab en nast, khurak en khhud. Bar skhevd-ao en yet. 
Khu midhj i tizd, medhena-’rd i pattewd. Ya lovd-e : “ Dis chiz-ir kini ?’’ 
Yii lovd-e “ Wuz am nasihat-i-padar zokhtj. Har wakhht tar khu watan 
na firebtj-am, khu kaman het na kinam.” Ba’d en skhuvd. 53. Sahar 
ikwid-und dinya wiz i chud. Fuk-ath wiz i chud. Yet-en wi ghor ghaiv- 
ande. Kamand i jumbind et yiwi yiwi pi-kamand vust et yii tizd. Al- 
kissa tizd-e tayar sut, et ikyiwam khub-rui vud. Wazir-bachah tizd-e. Ta 
ba yak didan 1 wuam pits i wind, ba sad didan ’ashik. 51. Ala-aspa yi 
ter jandar ar-khu-khez i la-chugjit. Az barai azmaish 1 kamand i chud tar 
wi ; lovd-e : u Bashand taz, de wuz-am.” Wazir-bachah tizd-e, yi chuvgaz 
jai reid, et yii chuskht-e ter jandar. Dedhe kamand i skhchukht. Yii 
dlnid ar wi khez, tit tit sut. 55. Ba’d lapath i niuwd, lovd : “ Eh diregh 
dinya. Dar rah-i wum khub-rui, mu i mi jinautj.” 
56. Ba’d Wazir-bachah fikr i child, lovd : <£ Waz am na zwast 
av (?) 51 wi. Wizivd, yet tar ghor kal, tanab i pattewd aram. Tanab 
injuvd, yii tizd. Ala-aspa naskhtud. Dhad ba yak digar baghal, lap en 
niuwd. 57. Ala-aspa lovd-e : “ Vrod, tu et dis chiz-ir child. Khub-ru 
at ’ashik sut, mal-i-dinya tu at ’ashik sut.” Lovd : ££ Har chiz vod yi disaj 
sut.” Sut-en tar kila. Wazir-bachah lovd : “ Yet, baskh kinam.” ££ Ala- 
aspa lovd : “ Tu baskh kin.” Wazir-bachah dar-rao baskhtjiF 2 sut, khu 
katta et bashand khu’r zezd, rez-gi dhid wi’rd. Alii-aspa lovd-e : “ Yid 
mazlum 52a mis tu, yid mal mis tu, mu’rd hajat nist.” Ikyuwi khu baskh da 
child wi’rd. 59. Lovd-e : <£ Tu neth, wuz sao-am baz-i-sufed wuz tu’r 
varam. Yid nust, Ala-aspa tiiid. Chandin muddut-i-wakhht naghjid. 
Sut az yi skhar-ande, bdz-i-sufed zokht et yet. 53 Yet yum-ande skhab i 
50 Accusative. 
5 ° a Past tense for conditional: “ if thou hast not failed” for “ if thou fail not”, &c^ 
51 Perhaps to be compared with Sarikoli accusative, “ a-wi .” 
52 A curious form. Lit. “ had divided, went.” 
52a Lit. “ oppressed one,” i. e. “ woman.” A Turki idiom. 
