Boys and girls are singing. Much money are they spending. To the girl her father is giving five buffaloes. The husband tells his wife that she must curl her hair. If her hair is curled, all the people will rejoice. The buffalo is slain, and now we must all dance. Why are not more people here? More should come. My buffalo is big, very big. Go quickly and catch it. The Todas are all there. They are standing in a row. Who will run, and catch the buffalo first? To him will a present of five rupees be given. I will go and catch it first. The Todas are all fighting. The Todas are all feasting. People give them rice. The buffalo is coming. Two men run to catch it by the neck. Ten men collect the buffaloes. They pen them in a kraal. At one o'clock we take our food. The buffalo is running, and I hit it on the back with a stick. It swerves aside, but I drive it back to the path. Night comes, and we all dance. Next morning at ten o'clock we bring out the buffalo, and slay it. At four in the morning we wrap rice and grain in a white cloth, and burn it. At eleven we cut the hair of the boys and girls. At four in the morning the priest goes to the temple (dairy). He lights the lamp. At eight he milks his buffaloes. He puts on no cloth. He places butter and ghi before the god. Then he grazes his buffaloes, and eats his food. Then he puts on his cloth. At three in the afternoon he goes again to the temple. He kindles a fire, and lights the lamp. He puts milk in a chatty, and churns it into butter with a cane. He mixes water with the butter-milk, and gives it to the women to drink. He alone may sleep in the temple. At four in the morning he lets out the buffaloes to graze. At seven he milks them. The woman's house is down the hill. The priest must not go in unto the woman. He may not marry. When he is twenty, he may not enter the temple. Another is made priest in his stead.