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

Note 3 — The Story of the Two Liars

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Thereupon this very Liar, having become afraid, thinks, “At the time when this very child told lies to this degree, when her father has come to what extent will he tell lies?” Thinking it, and asking for the packet of cooked rice again, he went off back again. Because it was not yet day3 [enough] for eating in the daytime,3 having hung the bundle of cooked rice on a large Banyan tree he went to sleep.

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