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So the Sparrow brought rice, and the Crow brought lentils, and the Sparrow was cook, and when the khichri was ready, the Crow stood by to claim his share. 'Who ever heard of any one sitting down to dinner so dirty as you are? quoth the Sparrow scornfully. 'Your body is quite black, and your head looks as if it were covered with ashes. For goodness gracious sake, go and wash in the Pond first.

So saying, he began to gather the ripe pears as fast as he could and put them into the khichri pot, but whenever he came to an unripe one he would shake his head and say, 'No one would buy that, yet it is a pity to waste it' So he would pop it into his mouth and eat it, making wry faces if it was very sour.

Oh, give me some milk, please, For if you do so The pain will be borne, Deer will give me his horn, And I'll dig a clean rill For the water to fill; Then I'll wash beak and feet And the nice khichri eat; Though I really don't know What the Sparrow can mean, For I'm sure, as Crows go, I'm remarkably clean!

'No, no, cried the greedy old wife, 'not till you have brought me in another load of wood; and mind it is a good one. You must work for your dinner. So the old man set off to the forest and began to hack and to hew with such a will that he soon had quite a large bundle, and with every faggot he cut he seemed to smell the savoury khichri and think of the feast that was coming.

Oh, give me some blades, please, For if you do so Madam Cow will give milk To the Deer sleek as silk; The pain will be borne, He will give me his horn, And I'll dig a clean rill For the water to fill; Then I'll wash beak and feet And the nice khichri eat; Though I really don't know What the Sparrow can mean, For I'm sure, as Crows go, I'm remarkably clean!

'Do you think your wife would give me some too, if I brought her a bundle of wood? he asked anxiously. 'Perhaps; if it was a very big load, answered the woodman craftily. 'Would would four hundredweight be enough? asked the bear. 'I'm afraid not, returned the woodman, shaking his head; 'you see khichri> is an expensive dish to make, there is rice in it, and plenty of butter, and pulse, and

Therefore, that same evening he ordered two kinds of khichri to be made ready for supper, and placed in one dish, so that one half was sweet khichri, and the other half salt. Now, when as usual the King sat down to eat out of the same dish with the Snake-woman, he turned the salt side towards her and the sweet side towards himself.

Please give me some water, For if you do so I can wash beak and feet And the nice khichri eat; Though I really don't know What the Sparrow can mean, For I'm sure, as Crows go, I'm remarkably clean! But the Pond said, 'Certainly I will give you water; but first you must go to the Deer, and beg him to lend you a horn.

Meanwhile the bear had been toiling and moiling away at his bundle of wood, which took him much longer to collect than he expected; however, at last he arrived quite exhausted at the woodcutter's cottage. Seeing the brass khichri pot by the fire, he threw down his load and went in.

'I'll tell you what we must do, we must lock up everything there is to eat in the house, leave the khichri pot by the fire, and hide in the garret. When the bear comes he will think we have gone out and left his dinner for him. Then he will throw down his bundle and come in.