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

Note 1 — The Queen and the Beggar

H. (Henry) Parker translation

When the Queen was coming [after] bathing in the water, the Beggar went in front of her. Having said, “Why did a Beggar like thee come, and come in contact with me?”1 she spat three times.

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