The man said, "To-day, indeed, I met with a plate." [He gave the
Hettiya an account of its good properties.]
Thereupon, the Hettiya, having made the man drink arrack (spirit
distilled from palm-juice), and made him drunk, and allowed him to
sleep on the bed, took the plate. Taking it, he put another plate
into the man's bread box.
Then the man having become conscious, and gone home, told the man's
wife, "Don't cook; we shall receive food." Having well polished the
plate, and spread a white cloth, placing it upon the table he waited.
Having ascertained that cooked rice did not descend, the man's wife
came, and taking the plate threw it away, and having cooked, ate.
On the following day, also, the man having walked without selling
bread, came near that tree, and said in the former way, "I will eat. I
will eat." [78]
Thereupon, the Yaka [79] on that day gave him a ring, and said,
"Having sold the ring, when you are going ten fathoms away the ring
will come and place itself again in your hand."
On that day, also, the Hettiya asked [what he had met with]. The man,
just as in the former manner, said, "I obtained a ring," [and told him
its property]. So the Hettiya on that day, also, made the man drunk,
and taking the ring and having caused another ring to be made, put
it on the man's hand.
The man having become conscious, and gone away taking the ring, sold
it. Having sold it, he went ten fathoms, and looked. That, also,
did not come.
Then the man on the following day also came without having sold the
bread, and having come near that tree, said on that day, also, just
as in the former manner.
At that time the Devatawa gave him a cow which drops gold. "Having
taken away this cow, take good care of it, and tie it up and keep it,"
he said.
Thereupon the man, taking also the cow, just as before went away near
that Hettiya's house. The Hettiya that day also asked, "What is it,
Appuhami, that you have obtained to-day?"
The man said, "To-day, indeed, I obtained, Hettirala, a cow which
drops gold."
So the Hettiya, that day also having given the man arrack to drink,
and made him drunk, and allowed him to sleep on the bed, brought the
Hettiya's old cow, and having tied it there the Hettiya took the cow
which drops gold.
Then that man having become conscious, and having gone away taking
that cow also, washed the cow-dung which the cow dropped. Excepting
cow-dung, there was no gold.
Thereupon the man on the following day, also, having gone for
bread-selling did not sell [any]. That day, also, he went near that
tree, and said, "Thou son of a courtesan, when I told thee to provide
me with a living thou cheatedst me. On account of it, to-day I shall
eat thee indeed," and he began to chase the Yaka on the path.
Then the Yaka said, "O Lord, do not chase me on the path." The Devatawa
well knows about the theft of the articles. Having said, "The things
that I give to this man yet [another] man takes," he gave him a cudgel.