she had given the invitation, Raja Suhusrajoorun’s wife, the sister of Renooka, indulging in pride, said laughing, ‘If sister, you can feed me and my army, give the invitation, otherwise do not give it.’ O great king! having heard this, Renooka was annoyed and rising up thence without speaking a word came home. Perceiving that she was in low spirits, Jumdugun, the sage, enquired, ‘What has happened to-day, that you are out of humour.’ Upon his making the enquiry, Renooka shedding tears, mentioned all the circumstances, as they had occurred. On hearing them, Jumdugun, the sage, said to his wife, ‘Well! go now and invite your sister with her army.’ When Renooka received her husband’s order, she went to her sister’s house and invited her. The sister said to her husband, ‘You and I, together with our army, must go to-morrow to eat our food at the house of Jumdugun, the sage.’ Having heard and assented to what his wife said he laughed and was silent. Jumdugun rose very early next morning and went to Raja Indrù, and asked for the cow Kamdhenoo, and afterwards went and invited, and brought back with him the Raja Suhusrajoorun; he came with his army, and Jumdugun Jee entertained them all with every kind of food they desired. When he and his army had eaten their food, Raja Suhusrajoorun was very much ashamed and began to say to himself, ‘Whence has he obtained the means of feeding so many people during the night, and how he has prepared the food, I cannot understand the secret of all this.’ Having thus spoken, and taken leave he went home, and despatched a brahmin, saying to him, ‘O divinity! go to the house of Jumdugun, and bring me information, by whose power he has, in one day, invited and entertained me and my army.’ On hearing these words, the brahmin went off quickly, and having made his observations came back, and said to Suhusrajoorun, ‘O great king! the cow Kamdhenoo is in his house, through whose power he has been able to invite, and entertain you in the course of a day.’ Suhusrajoorun said to the brahmin, in reply to this intelligence, ‘O divinity! go from me, and say to Jumdugun the sage, that I beg the cow Kamdhenoo from him.’ The brahmin on hearing these words, went with the message to the sage, and mentioned what Suhusrajoorun had said. The sage replied, ‘The cow does not belong to me, that I can give it, it belongs to Raja Indrù, and I cannot give it; go and tell your Raja so.’ Upon his saying this, the brahmin came, and said to Raja Suhusrajoorun, ‘O great king! the sage says that the cow Kamdhenoo is not his, but belongs to Raja Indrù; and he cannot give it to you.’ When the brahmin had thus spoken, Suhusrajoorun sent for several of his warriors, and said to them, ‘Go now, and loosen and bring here from the house of Jumdugun the cow Kamdhenoo.’ The warriors, on receiving their master’s order, went to the sage’s house; and when, after having loosened the cow, they carried it off in