"Once upon a time there lived a widow; she had a daughter whose beauty attracted many young men of the village. One day a tiger came in the shape of a man and asked to marry the girl. She was much frightened and kept silence. The tiger-man was angry at her behaviour, and recited a charm which made her ugly. Her mother said, 'Look! my daughter who was the most beautiful girl in the village has become ugly; if a man can restore her beauty he may marry her, and if a woman can do it she shall be my friend.' On hearing this, the tiger-man came to the old woman and said, 'Oh! Granny, I am a stranger, and have come from a distant village; let me put up in your house.' The old lady agreed, and after a few days he said, 'Oh! Granny, why are you so sad? Tell me the cause of your sorrow. Perhaps I can remove it.' 'Alas, my boy, it is beyond your power to do so,' she replied. The tiger-man, however, pressed her to tell him, and at last she did so, whereupon he replied, 'All right, if I cure her you will give her to me,' and in a few days he had restored her beauty, and they were married and lived together in her mother's house for many years. At length he asked permission to take his wife to his own home, and they started, but no sooner had they passed the village gate than he was changed into the shape of a tiger, and his wife wept much at seeing him thus. An old woman of the village saw them and came and told the people that a tiger was carrying off the girl, so the villagers assembled to consult, but no one would volunteer for the task of rescuing the girl. At last Fachirang and Rangchar, two brothers, set off with a dao and a spear to kill the animal, but after going a very little way Fachirang, the elder brother, said, 'Oh! Rangchar, I don't know what is the matter, but my heart beats so fast that I must remain here; you go and see if you can kill the beast alone.' So the younger brother went on alone till he came to the place where the tiger and the girl were living happily. Rangchar thrust his spear into the breast of the tiger, and it died at once, and Rangchar carried off the girl and returned to where his brother was waiting, and they all three set out for home together. The elder brother married the girl, and they all lived happily together." The Story of Kúngóri. (From "Progressive Colloquial Exercises in the Lushai Dialect" by Captain H. Lewin, 1874.)