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

Note 3 — The Story of the Seven Thieves

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Having seen that the Yakā of the box of decorations had come and was [there], he spoke to the other men and bounded off. Thereupon they also becoming afraid, the whole of them began to run away. Having heard the noise, this one also got up, and he having gone running behind them, the whole of them fell into a well and died.3

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