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

Note 1 — The Gamarāla’s Son-in-law

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Having brought [a man] he caused him to stay. On the following day morning the father-in-law says, “Child, there is a rice field of mine of sixty yālas twelve amuṇas.1 Having ploughed the rice field in just one day, and sown paddy there, and chopped the earthen ridges in it, and on that very day blocked up the gaps [in the fence], and come back, and given to the twelve dogs twelve haunches of Sambhar deer, and given leaves to the twelve calves, and poured water on the twelve betel creepers, and come back [after] cutting the Milla stump, and warmed water, can you bathe me?” he asks.

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