The father-in-law asked, "What is [the meaning of] that, son-in-law?"

The son-in-law replied, "Ando! You have been married such a long time,

too! Don't you know about it? When you are sleeping, having come every

day she licks your body. Sleep to-day, also; while you are sleeping

she will lick your body, On!"

Afterwards, having ploughed, when it became night the son-in-law,

going in front, came home, and says at the hand of the mother-in-law,

"Ando! Mother-in-law, he is a salt leaf-cutter whom you have married,

isn't he?"

Then the mother-in-law asked, "What is [the meaning of] that,

son-in-law?"

The son-in-law said, "Ando! You have been such a long time married,

too! Don't you know about it? To-day, after father-in-law has gone

to sleep lick his body. There is salt taste, On!"

Afterwards, in the night when the father-in-law had gone to sleep,

the mother-in-law went and licked his body. Then the father-in-law,

having awoke, said, "Ci! Ci [140]! Slut!"

The mother-in-law said, "Ci! Ci! Salt Leaf-cutter!" and the two

quarrelled.

When not much time had gone by, the [141] Gamarala said a speech to

the son-in-law in this manner. His elder daughter had been given [in

marriage] to a person at a distant village. "Son-in-law, as I have got

news that my daughter's illness is severe, I am going because of it,

and having gone there am returning."

Saying, "Sow one and a half amunas of paddy (eight and a half bushels),

and block up [the gaps in] the fence, and tie the fence of the garden,

and heat water, and place it [ready] for me to bathe when I come,"

he went.

Thereupon the man, getting the whole of these into his mind, said,

"It is good."

After the Gamarala went away, he lowered out of the corn-store one

and a half amunas of paddy, and having taken them placed them in the

rice field; and having come back, and gone [again] taking the yoke of

cattle and the plough, and driven two or three furrows for the whole

length of the field, and sown over the field the amuna and a half, and

tied the cattle at a tree [in the jungle], and cut the fence that was

round the field, and come home, and also cut the fence of the garden,

and heated a pot of water, also, until it was thoroughly boiling,

while he was placing it [ready] the Gamarala came, at the time when

the ground is being stricken dark.

Having come, he asked, "Did you do all these services?" That son-in-law

said, "Yes."