Then the son-in-law said, "Not he, mother-in-law; he hasn't come yet."

While she was there, the father-in-law came up and beat the woman

until the goad was broken to pieces. Afterwards the woman came home.

While the two men, having eaten the cooked rice, were ploughing, the

son-in-law asked at the hand of the father-in-law, "Father-in-law,

she is a slut whom you have called [in marriage], isn't she?"

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