So they plighted their troth to each other, subject to the consent of the brothers, and towards evening the bonga girl left, promising to return on the morrow.  When the brothers returned they discussed the matter and agreed that the youngest should marry the girl, provided that she promised to keep house for them.  So the next day the girl came back and stayed with them; and they found wives for the other brothers, and got cattle and buffaloes and broke up land for cultivation and though the brothers did not altogether give up hunting, they became rich.

A certain jogi found out where they lived and once every year he came to ask for alms; one year he came just after the bonga girl had borne a child, so as she was doing no work, it was her sisters-in-law who brought out food for the jogi.  But at this he was displeased, and said that he would only eat at the hands of the girl, who had given him food the year before.  They told him that she was in child-bed and could not come out.  Then he said:  “Go and tell her that the Jhades Jogi has come and wants her arm tassel.”  So she sent out her arm tassel to him and he put it in his bag and got up and went away.  Thereupon the bonga girl arose and left her baby, and followed him, and never came back.  At evening the brothers returned from hunting, and heard what had happened.  They were very distressed and told their wives to look after the baby while they went in pursuit.  They followed as hard as they could and caught up the Jogi on the banks of a river; then they tried to shoot him, but their arrows were powerless against him, and he by magic turned the seven brothers into stones.

So the Jogi carried off the woman to his home.  He was a Raja in his own country and he had a big garden; and an old woman who looked after it used to make garlands every day and bring them to the Rani, and the Rani used to pay their weight in silver for them.  In the course of time the child who was left behind grew up and when he used to play with his fellows at pitch and toss and there was any dispute about the game his playmates would say “Fatherless boy, you want to cheat!” So he asked his aunts whether it was true that he had no father and they told him that the Jhades jogi had carried off his mother, and how his father and uncles had gone in pursuit and had never returned.  So the boy decided to go in search of his mother and he set off, and first he met some goatherds and he sang to them:—­

    “Ho, Ho, goatherds
    Have you seen the Jhades Jogi
    On this road?”

But they could tell him nothing.  And then he met some shepherd boys, and he sang to them:—­

    “Ho, Ho, shepherds,
    Have you seen the Jhades jogi
    On this road?”

But they could tell him nothing.  Then he met some boys tending buffaloes and he sang;—­

    “Ho, ho, buffalo herds,
    Have you seen the Jhades jogi
    On this road?”