At a village a Siti [83] widow-mother had a son having the name
Appuhami. That Loku-Appuhami, having seen that the men of that district
are gambling, came to his mother, and said, "Mother, the men of this
village are gambling. Having cooked rice during the day time give me
it, and a little money, for me to go to gamble," he said.
Then the woman says, "Ane! Son, whence is there money for us? You be
quiet," [84] she said.
The boy having heard the mother's word, through being unable to
gamble went outside the house. When going, this boy saw that two men
having been at the cattle herd near a tamarind tree, went away. Having
seen them, this boy went there and looked; when he looked two sallis
(half-farthings) had fallen down there.
After that, this boy having taken the two sallis, said to his mother,
"Mother, now then, cook and give me rice, to go to gamble," he said.