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

Note 2 — The Heron and the Crab

H. (Henry) Parker translation

At the time of a great drought the water of a pool having nearly dried up, the fishes2 saw that they were coming near dying. A Pond Heron3 which saw it, having very speedily come flying, spoke to the fishes: “Friends, I will go and conduct you to a pool in which there is much water,” he said. They were pleased at it.

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