But meanwhile Kara and Guja had climbed down and gathered together all the fine clothes and everything valuable and taken them up into the tree.  And Kara took up a large drum which he found and in one end of the drum he made a number of little holes:  and he caught a number of wild bees which had a nest in the tree and put them one by one into the drum.  When the Raja’s attendants came back and saw that there were two men in the tree, they called out:  “Why have you dishonoured our Raja?  We will kill you.”  Kara and Guja answered “Come and see who will do the killing.”  So they began to fight and the Raja’s men fired their guns at Kara and Guja till they were tired of shooting, and had used up all their powder and shot, but they never hit them.  Then Kara and Guja called out “Now it is our turn!” And when the Raja’s men saw that Kara and Guja had nothing but a drum they said “Yes, it is your turn.”  So Kara and Guja beat the drum and called “At them, my dears:  at them my dears.”  And the wild bees flew out of the drum and stung the Raja’s men and drove them right away.  Then Kara and Guja took all their belongings and went home and ever after were esteemed as great Rajas because of the wealth which they had acquired.

XXI.  The Magic Cow.

There was once a Raja who had an only son named Kara and in the course of time the Raja fell into poverty and was little better than a beggar.  One day when Kara was old enough to work as a cowherd his father called him and said “My son, I am now poor but once I was rich.  I had a fine estate and herds of cattle and fine clothes; now that is all gone and you have scarcely enough to eat.  I am old and like to die and before I leave you I wish to give you this advice:  there are many Rajas in the world, Raja above Raja; when I am dead do you seek the protection of some powerful Raja.”  As there was not enough to eat at home Kara had to take service as goat-herd under a neighbouring Raja; by which he earned his food and clothes and two rupees a year.  Some time afterwards his father died and Kara went to his master and asked for a loan of money with which to perform his father’s funeral ceremonies, and promised to continue in his service until he had worked off the loan.  So the Raja advanced him five rupees and five rupees worth of rice, and with this money Kara gave the funeral feast.  Five or six days later his mother died, and he again went to the Raja and asked for ten rupees more; at first the Raja refused but Kara besought him and promised to serve him for his whole life if he could not repay the loan.  So at last the Raja lent him ten rupees more, and he gave the funeral feast.  But the Raja’s seven sons were very angry with their father because he had lent twenty rupees to a man who had no chance of paying, and they used to threaten and worry Kara because he had taken the money.  Then Kara remembered how his father had said that there were many Rajas