. Tales of the Punjab : told by the people . to avoid being seen he slipped behind the otherhedge. Thus Bopoluchi reached home in safety. Meanwhile, the robber, having come to his house,saw the figure in bridal scarlet sitting on the bridalchair, spinning, and of course thought it was he called to her to help him down with the mill-stone, but she didnt answer. He called again, butstill she didnt answer. Then he fell into a rage,and threw the millstone at her head. The figuretoppled over, and lo and behold ! it was notBopoluchi at all, but his old, ever so old mother !Whereupon the
. Tales of the Punjab : told by the people . to avoid being seen he slipped behind the otherhedge. Thus Bopoluchi reached home in safety. Meanwhile, the robber, having come to his house,saw the figure in bridal scarlet sitting on the bridalchair, spinning, and of course thought it was he called to her to help him down with the mill-stone, but she didnt answer. He called again, butstill she didnt answer. Then he fell into a rage,and threw the millstone at her head. The figuretoppled over, and lo and behold ! it was notBopoluchi at all, but his old, ever so old mother !Whereupon the robber wept, and beat his breast,thinking he had killed her ; but when he discovered BOPOLUCHI 69 pretty Bopoluchi had run away, he became wild withrage, and determined to bring her back somehow. Now Bopoluchi was convinced that the robberwould try to carry her off, so every night she beggeda newr lodging in some friends house, leaving herown little bed in her own little house quite empty ;but after a month or so she had come to the end of. her friends, and did not like to ask any of them togive her shelter a second time. So she determined o to brave it out and sleep at home, whatever happened ;but she took a bill-hook to bed with her. Sureenough, in the very middle of the night four mencrept in, and each seizing a leg of the bed, lifted itup and walked off, the robber himself having hold ofthe leg close behind her head. Bopoluchi was wideawake, but pretended to be fast asleep, until she 70 TALES OF THE PUNJAB came to a wild deserted spot, where the thieves wereoff their guard ; then she whipped out the bill-hook,and in a twinkling cut off the heads of the twothieves at the foot of the bed. Turning roundquickly, she did the same to the other thief at thehead, but the robber himself ran away in a terriblefright, and scrambled like a wild cat up a tree closeby before she could reach him. Come down ! cried brave Bopoluchi, brandishingthe bill-hook, and fight it out! But the robbe
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