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

Note 1 — The Frog Prince

H. (Henry) Parker translation

During the time while she was getting a living in this way she bore a frog, which she reared there. When it was grown up, the King of that city caused this proclamation to be made by beat of tom-toms: “I will give half my kingdom, and goods amounting to an elephant’s load, to the person who brings the Jewelled Golden Cock1 that is at the house of the Rākshasī (Ogress).”

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