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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 6 — The Female Quail

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Then the Hunchback, having drawn and drawn up the water from the well, caught and killed the frog, and tried to fill the water-pot with water. The water continuing, as he poured it, to make a sound “Kuja kuṭu kuṭu, kuja kuṭu kuṭu,”6 except that it splashed up does not fill the water-pot.

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