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POPULAR TALES OF BENGAL.
I.
KING HABACHANDRA AND HIS PRIME
MINISTER GABACHANDRA.
IN days of yore, there reigned a mighty monarch whose name was Habachandra, who had a Prime Minister called Gabachandra. The name Habachandra literally means 'the moon among fools,' or a first-rate fool; and Gabachandra literally signifies the same thing. These two appellations were very deservedly applied to the King and his Prime Minister, as Habachandra was indeed a shallow-brained simpleton, and Gabachandra an addle-headed ass! The proverb, "like master like man," was fully illustrated in the union of these two worthies. Whenever the King
