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SANTAL FOLK-TALES,

Through course of time the bonga girl's family became very poor, and her brothers on one occasion came to the chiefs house on a visit.

The bonga girl recognised them at once, but they did not know who she was. She brought them water on their arrival, and afterwards set cooked rice before them. Then sitting down near them, she began in wailing tones to upbraid them on account of the treatment she had been subjected to by their wives. She related all that had befallen her, and wound up by saying, "It is probable that you knew it all, and yet you did not interfere to save me."

After a time she became reconciled to her sisters in-law, and no longer harboured enmity in her mind against them, for the injury they had done her.

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