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

Note 1 — The Story of the Bitch

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After that, the man and the woman and the Bitch, the three, went to uproot Kaṭuwala [yams]. Having gone there, and the man having said, “This is for her of ours” (his wife),1 when he uprooted it on it there was no yam. Having said, “This is for the Bitch,” when he uprooted it on it there were yams such that the hands could not lift them. Uprooting them, and having come home and boiled them, when they were eating the Bitch stayed at the doorway. Without giving [any] to the Bitch the man and woman ate them.

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