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

Note 4 — The Royal Prince and the Heṭṭirāla1

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Thereupon the Heṭṭirāla says, “Don’t you do work [so as] to become tired. There are my shops; you can stay at a shop.” When he asked, “Can you [do] letter accounts?”4 the Prince said, “I can.” When he said it, having said, “If so, go to my shop,” he started him, and having gone with the Heṭṭirāla he gave him charge of the shop.

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