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

Note 1 — The Frog in the Queen’s Nose

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Then this woman having heard it, went running, and said, “My husband can,” and stopped the proclamation tom-toms.1 She stopped them because the man of the house ate the milk-rice without her succeeding in giving it to the paramour, with the motive that having killed this man she should take the paramour to live [there].

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