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

Note 3 — How a Woman became a Lapwing1

H. (Henry) Parker translation

The woman saying, “Perhaps it is true,” cooked a packet of rice, and taking thirty ridīs,3 put them at the bottom of the packet of cooked rice, and tied and gave him it, for him to go to her parents’ house and return. Unknown to the man4 she did this dishonesty (i.e., put his money in the bag).

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