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raja said to his servants, "Come, and let us fight with these two men." So arming themselves with guns, they went to the tank where Jhorea and Jhore were sitting, and began to shoot at them, bnt the bullets did them no harm. When their ammuni-tion was exhausted, they said, "Will you still fight?" The brothers answered, " Yes, we will fight." So they began to fire their guns, and beat their drum, and the bees and wasps issued from it like a rope, and began to sting the raja and his soldiers, who to save themselves, lay down and rolled on the ground. The raja, in anguish from the stings of the bees, exclaimed, " I will give you my daughter, and half of my kingdom, if you will call off the bees." Hearing this they beat the drum, and calling to the bees and wasps, orderd them all to enter the drum again, and the raja and his people went to their homes. The brothers however, could not agi-ee as to who should marry the princess. One said, " You marry her." The other said, "No, you maiTy her." The younger at length said to the elder, " You are the elder, you should take her, as it is not fitting that you should beg. If I were to marry her, I could no longer go about begging." So the elder brother married the princess, and became the raja's son-iii-law.
The two settled down there, and cultivated all kinds of crops. One day the elder brother sent his younger brother to bring a certain kind of grain. Taking a sickle and a rope to tie his sheaves with, he went to the field. Arrived there, he found that the grain was covered with insects. So he set fire to it, and while it was burning he kept calling out, " Whoever desires to feast on roasted insects, let him come here." When his bro- ther knew what he had done, he reprimanded him severely.
Some time afterwards, when the black rice was ripe, he again ordered him to go and reap some, so getting a sickle, and rope to bind his sheaves with, he went to the rice field. On looking about to see where he would begin, he discovered that each stalk of rice was covered with flies. " There is nothing here but flies. How can I reap this- ?" Saying this, he set fire to the