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

Note 3 — The Manner in which a Woman prepared a Flour Figure

H. (Henry) Parker translation

That woman having tied up the calf and come, says, “I had prepared the flour figure. Having thrown it away that one will have come and sat there [in its place]. What shall I do? [When] he escaped from you even so much [time], am I indeed going to eat that one’s liver?3 Why didn’t you split that one’s head?” Having said [this] she caused the man to be deceived.

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