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

Note 1 — Omitted Incidents.

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Then the Tom-tom Beater still [another] time became [obliged] to go outside.1 At that time having spoken to the Gamarāla he told him. The Gamarāla said, “Don’t talk.” Thereupon the Tom-tom Beater evacuated. Then the filth having gone, fell on the Rākshasa’s body. The Rākshasa having arisen, at the hand of the girl, having scolded her, asked, “What is this?” Thereupon the girl says, “I put some cow-dung on the upper-story floor; it (lit. they) will have fallen.” Then the Rākshasa without speaking went to sleep.

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