That was in the time of the bloom of my beauty.' She chuckled like a contented parrot above the sugar lump.

'Now tell me of thy goings and comings--as much as may be without shame.

How many maids, and whose wives, hang upon thine eyelashes?
Ye hail from Benares?
I would have gone there again this year, but my daughter--we have only two sons.

Phaii! Such is the effect of these low plains.

Now in Kulu men are elephants.