A certain Gamarala had a daughter, it is said. Many persons having
come, ask to marry the daughter. After they have asked it, this [137]
Gamarala asks those people who come, "Do you know the New Speech?" At
that time those people say, "Ane! There is not a New Speech that
we know." "If so, go you away," the [138] Gamarala says to those
parties. Well then, those people go.
Then still a party come. He asks that party, also, in that very
manner, "Do you know the New Speech?" Thereupon that party say,
"Ane! There is not a New Speech that we know." Then the man says,
"If so, I will not give my girl. I will give her [only] to the man
who knows the New Speech."
In this manner, many persons having asked and asked, went away. Because
even one person is not learning the New Speech, even one person does
not obtain her.
A young man at yet [another] village said thus: "Ane! Father, I know
[139] a New Speech. Because of it, marry and give that Gamarala's
daughter to me," he said.
Thereupon, he having gone asks the Gamarala, "My son knows a New
Speech. Because of it, can you marry your daughter to my son?" he
asked.