--- title: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11 — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: This was rather a bold offer. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11 # Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/101/) — Here, take this," he continued, scribbling a few lines on some paper, and then handing it to her, "and give it to the king. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/102/) — You will see that he will give you a lac of rupees for it." - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/103/) — Thus saying he dismissed her, and the woman left. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/104/) — On this scrap of paper were written three pieces of advice--First, If a person is travelling and reaches any strange place at night, let him be careful where he puts up, and not close his eyes in sleep, lest he close them in death. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/105/) — Secondly, If a man has a married sister, and visits her in great pomp, she will receive him for the sake of what she can obtain from him; but if he comes to her in poverty, she will frown on him and disown him. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/106/) — Thirdly, If a man has to do any work, he must do it himself, and do it with might and without fear. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/107/) — On reaching her home the Brahmani told her parents of her meeting with her husband, and what a valuable piece of paper he had given her; but not liking to go before the king herself, she sent one of her relations. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/108/) — The king read the paper, and ordering the man to be flogged, dismissed him. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/109/) — The next morning the Brahmani took the paper, and while she was going along the road to the darbar reading it, the king's son met her, and asked what she was reading, whereupon she replied that she held in her hands a paper containing certain bits of advice, for which she wanted a lac of rupees. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/110/) — The prince asked her to show it to him, and when he had read it gave her a parwana for the amount, and rode on. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/111/) — The poor Brahmani was very thankful. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/112/) — That day she laid in a great store of provisions, sufficient to last them all for a long time. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/113/) — In the evening the prince related to his father the meeting with the woman, and the purchase of the piece of paper. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/114/) — He thought his father would applaud the act. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/115/) — But it was not so. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/116/) — The king was more angry than before, and banished his son from the country. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/117/) — So the prince bade adieu to his mother and relations and friends, and rode off on his horse, whither he did not know. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/118/) — At nightfall he arrived at some place, where a man met him, and invited him to lodge at his house. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/119/) — The prince accepted the invitation, and was treated like a prince. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/120/) — Matting was spread for him to squat on, and the best provisions set before him. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/121/) — "Ah!" thought he, as he lay down to rest, "here is a case for the first piece of advice that the Brahmani gave me. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/122/) — I will not sleep to-night." - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/123/) — It was well that he thus resolved, for in the middle of the night the man rose up, and taking a sword in his hand, rushed to the prince with the intention of killing him. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/124/) — But he rose up and spoke. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/125/) — "Do not slay me," he said. " - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/126/) — What profit would you get from my death? - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/127/) — If you killed me you would be sorry afterwards, like that man who killed his dog." - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/128/) — "What man? - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/129/) — What dog?" he asked. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/130/) — "I will tell you," said the prince, "if you will give me that sword." - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/131/) — So he gave him the sword, and the prince began his story: - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/132/) — "Once upon a time there lived a wealthy merchant who had a pet dog. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/133/) — He was suddenly reduced to poverty, and had to part with his dog. — checked by a teacher - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/134/) — He got a loan of five thousand rupees from a brother merchant, leaving the dog as a pledge, and with the money began business again. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/135/) — Not long after this the other merchant's shop was broken into by thieves and completely sacked. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/136/) — There was hardly ten rupees' worth left in the place. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/137/) — The faithful dog, however, knew what was going on, and went and followed the thieves, and saw where they deposited the things, and then returned. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/138/) — "In the morning there was great weeping and lamentation in the merchant's house when it was known what had happened. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/139/) — The merchant himself nearly went mad. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/140/) — Meanwhile the dog kept on running to the door, and pulling at his master's shirt and paijamas, as though wishing him to go outside. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/141/) — At last a friend suggested that, perhaps, the dog knew something of the whereabouts of the things, and advised the merchant to follow its leadings. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/142/) — The merchant consented, and went after the dog right up to the very place where the thieves had hidden the goods. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/143/) — Here the animal scraped and barked, and showed in various ways that the things were underneath. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/144/) — So the merchant and his friends dug about the place, and soon came upon all the stolen property. — checked by a teacher - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/145/) — Nothing was missing. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/146/) — There was everything just as the thieves had taken them. 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