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

Note 9 — The Royal Prince and the Carpenter’s Son

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Having said this, he cut down the King and dropped him into the sea, and, taking the Princess, rowed near that well in the jungle. Having gone [down the well] to the palace, and caused that Prince to put on these royal ornaments, the Prince, and the Princess, and the Carpenter’s son, the whole three persons, having gone on the Wooden Peacock machine to the city, and said that the King and the Princess had contracted the marriage, that day with great festivity ate the [wedding] feast; but any person of the city was unaware of this abduction9 [of the King] which he effected.

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