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women at this season are apt to play practical jokes on lone males in lone places, as we had once reason to know; and stripping is regarded as a permi ible a ault, for all is now merriment, and all is done “for the love of Kama.” The Khasia tribes (says Mr At kins on, Journal Bengal Rl, Asiatic Socy., Jany. 1884), affix the phallic Trisul, or trident of Siva, to the Holi poles, praying to them especially for offspring born, or expected, during the past year; and priests go round to affix a special Zika, or mark, on the foreheads of donors to these rites.