[Footnote 1: Head of a religious community.]
[Footnote 3: Runjeet Singh never enlisted a man who, in counting up to thirty, said _puch-is_ for five and twenty, but those who said _punj-is_ were passed. In other words, the _patois_ was made a test of whether the recruit belonged to the Trans-Sutlej tribes or the Cis-Sutlej.]
[Footnote 4: _Bunniah_, a merchant. _Bunniah-ji_ signifies, as Shakespeare would have said, Sir Merchant.]
[Footnote 6: _Baba_, as a term of familiarity, is applied indifferently to young and old.]
[Footnote 7: _Purohit_, a spiritual teacher, a sage, answering in some respects to the Red Indian's medicine-man.]
[Footnote 8: Snakes are said to be attracted by the scent of blood, as they are undoubtedly by that of milk.]
[Footnote 11: Lit. Father. Baba is constantly used to a religious teacher.]
[Footnote 12: Lit. _rice and lentil_. A catchword for native food.]
[Footnote 15: Lit. stick-bearer, but applied always to wandering devotees who tramp the country living on alms.]
[Footnote 19: "God Almighty and his prophet Mohammed;" a brief confession of faith.]
[Footnote 20: The veil worn by secluded women.]
[Footnote 21: Unleavened cakes and mince-meat balls.]
[Footnote 23: The Hindu Venus; Durga in another form.]
[Footnote 24: In India the cow will not give milk if separated from her calf.]
[Footnote 26: Literally _bâkee_, or extra; but _Barker sahib_ is a perennial jest with both master and man, answering to the English Mr. Manners.]
[Footnote 27: Title of honour equivalent to our "mistress."]
[Footnote 30: A title of courtesy equivalent to our mistress.]
End of Project Gutenberg's The Flower of Forgiveness, by Flora Annie Steel