Note 77 — IX.

One Joy Ghose, a notorious buffoon, was once asked by his old mother to perform the above rite. Joy, instead of reciting the motto in the right way, purposely inverted it just to irritate the old lady, and repeated the first last and the last first. The joke was too much for the sensitive mother; she wrung her breast, tore her hair, and refused to be consoled until the son repeated the song in proper order, i. e., "bad luck out, good luck in." Trifling with Luckee, the goddess of prosperity, is the height of folly. It is punished with misery here and perdition hereafter.