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SOME ASSAMESE PROVERBS.
This is a case of counting one's chickens before they are
hatched, as well as of exaggeration.
19. Exaggeration.
Bál chhingote mohá maril,
Mai bolo mohá ranat he paril.
My uncle died in scratching himself (literally in breaking a hair),
But I thought he fell in an engagement.
মােহা is mother's younger sister's husband.
20. Exaggeration.
By associating with the good I drank honey,
And by mounting on the head of Bikramaditya I bathed
in the Ganges.
সজ is pure, good, excellent. মধু is honey. Bikramáditya was
the name of a Hindu king. The meaning of the third line of the
proverb is obscure.
21. False excuses.
The tongue because it has no bone,
Says various things,
