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“ your honour ” meaning “ of your honour ,” while means 
“ of one's self " This is exactly reversed in Eangpuri, where is 
almost always used when the speaker wishes to say “ of one’s self.” In 
this dialect, however, the suffix miT, which I believe to be a sort of double 
genitive, is not confined to I find it used in common conversa¬ 
tion, in such phrases as f^T ^riT “ I came on foot a 
journey of two days" ; 3HT “put it aside for to-morrow." 
Curiously enough, when in Tirhut in the year of the famine, I was thrown 
much amongst uneducated classes, I noticed, amongst other forms in which 
a relationship to Bangali might be traced, a similar use of the word 
and instead of ^tt, which then not having been in Rangpur, I could not 
understand. 
I now proceed to give some examples of Eangpuri folk songs. 
I have used the Deva-Nagari alphabet, and not the Bangali, as I be¬ 
lieve they will thus be accessible to a wider number of readers. As the 
three sibilants are freely interchangeable, I have for the sake of uniformity 
followed Vararuchi II, 43, and have written a dental ^ sa throughout. I 
have not, however, been able to carry out this rule rigidly in the case 
of some compound letters. For similar reasons I have represented both 
■s and \ by h. 
The first story is a kind of nonsense verse, not unlike some of our 
nursery rhymes at home. Although I do not know any exact European 
parallel, it is quite possible that such an one may exist, and I have given it 
in the hope of the analogy being pointed out. 
I do not know why it is called a Goralch Neither ydn. It appears to 
have no connection whatever with Krishna. It is a great favourite amongst 
the people, who delight in hearing it sung, and go into fits of laughter at 
the absurder impossibilities related. 
’Tfun ^rijT *TT«T I 
I 
ftp* rUX TT? II \ II 
vrt^TT I 
?itNt ii ^ ii 
5 JiT ?T ^T*T<T ?TTT I 
fTT?i f^T«T ^ 3TTOK I 
^ «TT 1 
YU »TT || ^ || 
V ’ VT «TT I 
