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

Note 1 — How a Woman Offered Cakes

H. (Henry) Parker translation

After that, the man having prepared the two cleft sticks in the lower part of the garden, gave her them. From that day, the woman having cooked fifty cakes, at one cleft stick offers twenty, at one cleft stick thirty.1

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