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

Note 2 — The Prince and the Yakā

H. (Henry) Parker translation

After that, the King’s youngest Princess, for the sake of sending the Prince away from the post of looking after the horse, went to the King, and wept while saying thus: “Anē! Father,2 because of this youth who looks after them, my sheep are nearly finished. On that account, taking the horse-keeper who came with that Seṭṭiyārē, to look after my sheep, let us send the youth who looks after the sheep to look after the horse.”

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