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

Note 6 — The Frog in the Queen’s Nose

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Having said [this] he ended. The Queen, from the time when he began to tell this story being without a place for passing down the breath, when this story was becoming ended, because that breath had been shut back gave a snort6 (huh gālā), and when she was sending the breath from her nose, the young frog quite of itself fell to the ground.

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