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

Note 2 — The Ash-Pumpkin Fruit Prince

H. (Henry) Parker translation

On the seventh day morning the Python came to the veranda. At that time, the mother-in-law of the woman who had come in dīga [marriage] to the Python, said to the woman, “Daughter, lower a little paddy from the corn store,2 and having winnowed, boil it.”

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