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

Note 3 — The Story of the Wooden Peacock

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The Carpenter’s son having stayed on the high ground on the other bank, became a beggar, and went away.3 Those two Princes having been weeping and weeping on this bank, jumped into the river. The two Princes went upwards and upwards in the river—there is a crocodile-house (burrow)—along the crocodile-house they went upward [and came to the surface of the ground].

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