. Folk tales from Tibet : with illustrations by a Tibetan artist and some verses from Tibetan love-songs. himself up in his best clothes, and, after feasting thewedding party in the usual manner, he begged them allto go on ahead of him, saying that he would follow assoon as he had said good-bye to his Mother. Towards evening he set out by himself on was a moonlight night, and as he rode down the roadhe could see his own shadow travelling along besidehim. He could not make out what the shadow was,but thought it must be some ghost or demon, whichwanted to do him an injury, so he urg
. Folk tales from Tibet : with illustrations by a Tibetan artist and some verses from Tibetan love-songs. himself up in his best clothes, and, after feasting thewedding party in the usual manner, he begged them allto go on ahead of him, saying that he would follow assoon as he had said good-bye to his Mother. Towards evening he set out by himself on was a moonlight night, and as he rode down the roadhe could see his own shadow travelling along besidehim. He could not make out what the shadow was,but thought it must be some ghost or demon, whichwanted to do him an injury, so he urged his horse intoa gallop, in order to try and get away from it. But thefaster he galloped the faster went the shadow, and hesoon saw that it was no good trying to escape. So inorder to frighten the strange object he took off hispuggaree and flung it at it. As this produced no effect,he followed up the puggaree with his cloak, and, finally,with all the clothes he had on, but without in any wayfrightening the shadow, which still continued to foUowhim closely. So thinking to give it the slip, he jumped. I o D < O s 0w Dc/}OiD 7, <%JDc/1tA)13 s oz DO wi; THE FOOLISH YOUNG MUSSULMAN. 35 off his horse and ran along the road on foot, until he gotinto the shade of a big poplar-tree growing near theroad-side. Here he stopped to take breath, and he noticed tohis great joy that the shadow had disappeared; buton peeping out from the shadow of the tree he wasannoyed to find that on whichever side he looked theshadow immediately showed itself also. So thinkingthat the shade of the tree was the safest place to stayin, he climbed into the upper branches and very soonfell fast asleep. A short while after a party of travellers happened tobe passing by this road from the same direction, and asthey came along they were surprised to find a numberof garments scattered about the roadway. So theypicked them up as they came along, and presently theyfound a horse grazing beside the road. Him, too
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