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

Note 3 — The Queen of the Rock House1

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Then her father came. That day night, having given him amply to eat and drink,—there was a house3 adjoining the house3 in which she is; in the direction of the house in which she is, between that house and this house the wall was closed with coconut leaves,—in the house she allowed her father who came, to sleep at night. Having given it she said, “Father, at this village is much small-pox. The men of this village and my husband were lost [by it]. Having been lost, [while] so much time was passing you did not remember me. It happened that you did not want me; you have wanted only younger sister. It is good. What am I to do?” Having said [this] she wept a weeping.4

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