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maithil chrestomatiiy. [Extra No. 
Dauna Malin, king Salhes remained in the garden of king Bhim Sain, and 
guarded it for the rest of his life. 
This concludes the prose part of the reading book. 
The first poetical piece given is four songs of the Marsid , celebrating 
the death of the brothers Hassan and Husain, and sung by Muhammadan 
boys at the Muharram. They are good examples of the Musalman dialect 
of the country, which differs little from that of the Hindus. They are 
written exactly as dictated by a choir of little boys whom I picked up 
two years ago in an outlying village. It is noteworthy that they also 
sung songs in U'rdu, which they knew by rote, but could not understand. 
The boys were quite uneducated: they did not know how to read or 
write, and had never left their native village. 
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