Note 2 — The Story of the Old Man1

In a certain country an old man ground gunpowder. Having ground it until the time when it became night, he dried it in the sun. In the evening, at the time when he was preparing (lit., making) to put it in the powder-horn, the old gentleman’s2 grandson having come said, “Grandmother, let us burn (pussamu) gunpowder, to look at it.”