. Hindoo life. With pictures of the men, women, and children of India . he way. He will say, Please, my lord, beso good as to stand aside and let me pass. They worship the monkey, too. There is a monkey-god, of whom they tell the most wonderful and ridiculousstories. When he was quite a child, he one day saw therising sun, and thinking it was a ripe fruit, he leaped upto seize and eat it. One of the gods, seeing what he wasdoing, struck him with a thunderbolt, upon which he fellto the earth and broke his cheek-bone; so from that theycalled him Hanu-man, for hanu, in that language, meanscheek-b
. Hindoo life. With pictures of the men, women, and children of India . he way. He will say, Please, my lord, beso good as to stand aside and let me pass. They worship the monkey, too. There is a monkey-god, of whom they tell the most wonderful and ridiculousstories. When he was quite a child, he one day saw therising sun, and thinking it was a ripe fruit, he leaped upto seize and eat it. One of the gods, seeing what he wasdoing, struck him with a thunderbolt, upon which he fellto the earth and broke his cheek-bone; so from that theycalled him Hanu-man, for hanu, in that language, meanscheek-bone. They say he was wonderfully strong. When 55 HINDOO LIFE. only ten years old lie lifted up and carried off a rock thatwas nearly twenty miles in circumference. He did tliisto trouble some holy men who cursed him and for a timetook away all his strength. As they do not like to driveaway monkeys, in many places they become very trouble-some indeed to the people, though to you they would bevery amusing. The Hindoos not only worship beasts,but birds, and even 56
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