He brought him to Bondee, where the Rajah had him tied up in his artillery gun-shed, and gave him raw-flesh to eat: but he several times cut his ropes and ran off; and after three months the Rajah got tired of him, and let him go.

He was then taken by a Cashmeeree mimic, or comedian (_bhand_), who fed and took care of him for six weeks*; but at the end of that time he also got tired of him (for his habits were filthy), and let him go to wander about the Bondee bazaar.

He one day ran off with a joint of meat from a butcher's shop, and soon after upset some things in the shop of a _bunneeah_, who let fly an arrow at him.

The arrow penetrated the boy's thigh.

At this time Sanaollah, a Cashmere merchant of Lucknow, was at Bondee, selling some shawl goods to the Rajah, on the occasion of his brother's marriage.