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Updated: May 25, 2025
'Don't ask me! wailed the cock-sparrow; 'it isn't manners to ask questions when a body is in deep mourning. But the pipal would not be satisfied without an answer, so at last poor bereaved cock-sparrow replied 'The ugly hen painted. By jealousy tainted, The pretty hen dyed. Lamenting his bride, The cock, bald and bare, Sobs loud in despair!
When she had travelled a long long way, she became so tired that she could walk no longer; therefore she climbed into a big pipal tree, in order to be secure from wild beasts, and rested amongst the branches. After a time a handsome young prince, who had been chasing deer in the forest, came to the big pipal tree, and, allured by its tempting shade, lay down to sleep away his fatigues.
"They're all outside the palace wall. How in thunder can I keep secret about that?" "You must begin inside the palace wall, and tunnel underground." "Dirt's all soft down there," said Dick. "We'll need to prop up as we go. Lots of lumber. Cost like blazes. Where's the lumber coming from?" "Cut down the pipal trees!" "Man we'd need a mill!" "There is no lumber not in such a hurry."
FAR from the haunts of Company Officers who insist upon kit-inspections, far from keen-nosed Sergeants who sniff the pipe stuffed into the bedding-roll, two miles from the tumult of the barracks, lies the Trap. It is an old dry well, shadowed by a twisted pipal tree and fenced with high grass.
But they know nothing! They are parasites! They teach only what will keep men in their power, and women in subjection, themselves not understanding what they teach! I soon learned that if the priests were treasure-guards their charge would have been dissipated long ago! Then I looked for a hundred trees, and found them! A hundred pipal trees all in a place together!
Barlow turned involuntarily to look into the girl's face; it was an inquisitive look, a wondering look; gentle sentiment coming from Elizabeth was rather a reversal of form. Also there was immediately a reversal of bird form, a shatterment of sentiment, a rasping maddening note from somewhere in the dome of a pipal tree.
Here and there a little shy crowd of women gather at a door and salute the Chief with a loud shrill verse of discordant song. It is some national song of the Chiefs ancestors and of the old heroic days. The place of carousal is a bare spot near a large and ancient well out of which grows a vast pipal tree. Hard by is a little temple surmounted by a red flag on a drooping bamboo.
In vain the Brahman pleaded for his life; the most he could gain was a promise to abide by the decision of the first three things he chose to question as to the justice of the tiger's action. So the Brahman first asked a pipal tree what it thought of the matter, but the pipal tree replied coldly, "What have you to complain about?
At these words the mannikin suddenly shot up into a terribly tall demon, whereupon the Knifegrinder's courage disappeared, and, falling on his knees, he begged for mercy. But his piteous cries were of no use, for in a trice he was hung to the topmost branch of the pipal tree. 'I'll teach 'em to cook in my kitchen! growled the demon, as he gobbled up all the cakes and savoury stew.
A score of bats flew up from the wall crevices, a flying fox struck him on the shoulder, at his feet something black and slender twisted away into a darker place. Sunni stood absolutely still, gradually letting go his hold upon the pipal twigs.
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