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[No. 1, 
Hugh Fraser —Folklore from Fastern Gorakhpur. 
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( Ch .) q^fa «TOT II II £ IS 
cTtW ^ q»* * * § T I 
i ^rq* ii 
(<?/g) BqYqT || g g 
Translation Y. 
Behind my house, brother tell ;f press out linseed oil. 
(Ch.) oh ! foreign Bee.J 
The fair girl put linseed oil on her head, so her hair all got clotted. 
(Ch.) oh! foreign Bee. 
I went to rub my locks (forehead) in my father’s tank, and my 
“ tikulf”§ fell into the middle of the stream. 
(Ch.) oh ! foreign Bee. 
I touch your feet, young brother-in-law. Throw a big net into the 
tank. 
(Ch.) oh ! foreign Bee. 
On one side was entangled shells and weeds. On one side my 
“ tikuli.” 
(Ch.) oh ! foreign Bee. 
I touch your feet, young brother-in-law. Take up my “tikuli” and 
give it me. 
(Ch.) oh ! foreign Bee. 
* Concerning the metre of this line see my note.—G. A. G. 
t Telz, long form telia, a man of the oilman caste.—G. A. G. 
J A hlack bee with a yellow tail like a Bumble Bee. [This song appears to me 
to be originally, of a Vaishnava character, the mystic meaning of which may or may 
not have been lost. If a Yaishnava poem, it represents a conversation between 
Krishn and some married Gopi. A close parallel will be found in Vid. V. In all 
these love songs a gallant (whether Ivrishn or not) is frequently represented as a Bee 
or as a mosquito, reference being frequently made to their insinuating voices. Thus 
in Vid. XXXVII 4, 6, the poet calls the lover “the bee.” An enhanced attraction in 
such illicit love is that the lover is a foreigner come from a far country (compare 
Yid. LXXX for another example), and hence a refrain such as “Oh foreign Bee,” 
though having no direct reference to the subject matter of the text is fitting according 
to native ideas to a song of intrigue like the present.—G. A. G.] 
§ The spot of silver worn on a woman’s forehead.— G. A. G. 
