866 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [Chap. £ Your good neighbours ought to have a share. “| presented them with six ; and then only two remained. “T ate one to see how it tastes: there remained only one. “ Look for that on the dish. ‘If you are a true man eat the bone and keep the flesh (for me). ‘Because you have got such a wife as myseif, you are furnished with a true account.” The above two extracts illustrate the easy and simple style which is to be found in some of the text books compiled for the college of Fort William in which Dr. Carey taught the HKeigalee, Hindus- thani, and Maharathi languages. He not only
2 contributed very considerably himself to Bengali Bengali prose literature, but always befriended those who writers. : 2 took good vernacular work in hand. For instance we find that Thakur’s Bengali and English Diction- তবে থাকিল ছয় । প্রতিবাসীকে চারিট! দিতে হয় ॥ তবে থাকল ছুই। তার একটা চাখিয়৷ দেখিলাম মুই ॥ তবে থাকিল এক। এ পাতপানে HIATT cw ॥ এখন হহস যদি মান্সের পো । তবে কাটাখান খাহয়। মাছখান থে। ॥ আম যেই মেয়ে। তেই হিসাব দিলাম কা'য়ে ॥”
