The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-01-30

VINE. Dut no sooner d1d she feel the heat,
than she cried out, "Ah. that's enough { |
have lost my wager :" :heR turning to me
she said, 6 See, there's your betel leaf''
" Ay, replied H. | knew you would speak
hrst," ANA therenpon, repeated to ali pres
ent the story of our wager. What I" cri-
ed they all, s. and was it merely that you
might not lose betel-leaf that you alarm
ed your family and the whole village ?
Was 1t for such triie that you allowed
yourself to he burned from head to foot
Was there ever such an ineot !" And from
that time have been nicknamed BeteI An
antaya"
The assembly, on hearing the third Brah
min, agreed that he had large pretensions
to the soldiers salute but before de, idng.
they resolved to hear the fourth speaker,
who delivered Himself as follows:
When was married, my mother. being
sick, was unable to fetch my wife fiom the
house of her father she therefore despatch
ed me on the mission, with Thousand
rounsels ana cautions, saying at the same
time, " Knowing you as ] do, I am afiaid
you will commit some piece of folly" /
promised to conduct myself properly, and
set out. After staying three days with my
iather-ln-law, | proceeded homeWards.-
We were then in the summer solstace, and
the heat was excessive. We had to cross
a sandy plain more than six miles in extent.
The hot sand bnrnt the feet of my Young
wife, who had heen very delicately hfought
up in her fathers house she first began to
cry. and then, unable to proceed farther,
she threw herself on the grol nj, refusing
to rise. and saying she was determined to
die there. | seated myself at her side, I'M
certain What to do, when a merchant with
fifty oxen passed by: | consulted him on
the subject; and he replied, that to proceed
or remain would be dangerous for the girl.
However" said he. " rs her death is Ger
tain either way, and you may he suspected
OF it, suppose you give her to me: | will put
her on one Of my oxen, and take the utmost
care of her; and rs for her trinkets, they
may be worth twenty pagodas here are
thirty for you. Now will You give me your
wife 2"
" The arguments of the merchant appear
ed to me very plausible ; so took his mon
ey, gave him my wife, and pursued my way
homewaris. Where is your wife :" said
my mother. Upon this detailed the affair."
and showed her the thirty pagodas had re-
celved when she, to my surprise, burst
forth into transports Of rage. q" Wretch
fool villain !" cried she, have you sold
your wife-a JrohmaddyH-to a base mer
chant? What will her friends and our
own say to such a piece of beastly stupid
ity!"
"My wife's parents were not long in ig-
nornncr Of tbs fnte Of their daughter they
came to my house, and would have murder
ed not only myselfhut my poor mother, had
we not saved ourselves by fight.
"They, however, carried the affair be
fore the chiefs of the caste: no not con-
tent with ordering me to pay two hundred
pagodas OF damages to my father-in-law,
would have forever excluded me from the
caste, had it not been for the respect IN
which they all held g my worthy father be-
fore me-" Ii was also ordered that such Il
fool as ] should never he allowed to take a
wife, and | am thus condemned to remain a
widower for the rest Of my life. | appeal
to you, gentlemen, after this, whether | am
not worthy of the soldiers salute"
After hearing tie four Brahmins, the
judges decided that each-was worthy of the
victory. q" Each of you," said they, has
gained his cause so you may continue your
journey IN peace if possible" The plead
ers were all satisfied with the decision, and
departed each shouting, 81 have won |
have won -
The dog is reckoned an unclean animal in
India
THE most degraded of the Indian castles
The Hlndoos are fond Of chewing betel Of
which geo leaves NAV be had for a tarthing
Belonging to the Brahmin caste
$3.50