Note 1 — The Story of the Mango Bird

While a man was chopping the earthen ridges in the field at which is the Wild Mango tree, having seen the Mango Bird1 the man went up the tree, and having caught the Mango Bird and descended from the tree to the ground, struck the Mango Bird on the root of the tree. Having struck it he asked the Mango Bird, “Mango Bird, was that day good [or] is to-day good?”2