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

Part 2 — The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Mouse-deer

H. (Henry) Parker translation

The Kaḍambāwa men having appointed a wedding-[day], and having caught a great many Mouse-deer [for eating at it], tied clappers on their necks like those on goats, and having made an enclosure put them in it, and came away. The Mouse-deer escaped into the jungle.

Having gone to it on the wedding-day, when they looked there was not one Mouse-deer left. Then the men, saying, “Anē! The Mouse-deer that we reared have all gone,” came back to the village, much astonished.

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