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

Note 6 — How a Woman became a Lapwing1

H. (Henry) Parker translation

The washerwoman said, “Anē! Madam (mahattinē), on the road indeed I did not meet with him; he is staying at the gentleman’s (rāhamillē) elder sister’s house. Except that it seemed that he is6 at the house itself, he did not [otherwise] go to your quarter.”

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