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KOPAL-KUNDALA.
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"Have you seen whether any traveller is coming along behind you?"
Nobokumar replied in the negative.
The woman again asked, "How far is the chuttee?"[1]
Nobokumar said, "I can't say, but it must be close at hand."
The woman said, "How am I to sit in the fields alone with you in the darkness; I must go with you to the chuttee. I think I can walk, if I had something to lean upon."
Nobokumar said, "It is folly to be modest at a time of danger. Lean on my shoulder."
The woman was not foolish. So she went along leaning on Nobokumar's shoulder.
As a matter of fact, the chuttee was quite close. At that time robbers did not fear to commit crimes of violence quite close to
- ↑ A chuttee is a serai and something more. It is a small cluster of houses (comprising a shop or two), which springs up on much-frequented routes to supply the wants of pilgrims and others using the road. If the road be much frequented and the chuttee be three miles or more from the nearest village on either side, a liquor shop will generally be found there, or in North Behar, a ganja shop, or in Orissa, an opium shop.
