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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 3 — Concerning the Prince and the Princess who was Sold

H. (Henry) Parker translation

At that time, the young Prince and Princess3 having gone to yet [another] garden, building a stick house [there], this Prince having told that Princess to be in the house went and plucked coconuts during the whole day-time (dāwal tissē). Taking the coconuts given as his hire (baelageḍi), and having given them at the shop, in the evening procuring two gills of rice and the requisite things for it he comes back.

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