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

Note 2 — The Female Fowl Thief

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Well then, the woman having said, “It is not so,” began to swear [to it]. Then the man having said, “What are these, Bola?” showed her the fowl bones. Then the woman’s breath was drawn upward2; in that very way the woman’s life departed.

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