Thereupon he says, "When do you bathe (that is, pour water over
yourself) by your own hand? Please bathe by my hand."
Having said, "It is good," the father-in-law tying on the bathing cloth
(ambuda baendaganda), told him to bathe him.
Thereupon the son-in-law poured on his back, from the pot, that water
which was boiling. Then the Gamarala, as it was burning his back,
cried, "What, son-in-law, did you do here?"
Then the son-in-law says, "Don't shout in that way, father-in-law;
that indeed is a piece of the New Speech."
Because his back had been scalded, the hot water having been thrown on
it, the relatives were dismissed from his mind. The Gamarala's back was
scalded to the extent that he was unable to rise for two or three days.
After two or three days had gone by, when he looked at the fence of
the garden, the fence had been cut. Thereupon the Gamarala asked at the
hand of the son-in-law, "Son-in-law, who cut the fence of the garden?"
Then he says, "Father-in-law, that indeed is a part of the New Speech,"
he said. At that time, also, the Gamarala was angry.
[After] looking at it, he went to the rice field, and when he looked,
the fence of the rice field also had been cut, and paddy had been sown
in the [unploughed] rice field. When he asked also at the hand of the
son-in-law, "What is [the meaning of] that?" "A part of the New Speech,
indeed, is that," he said. The Gamarala at that also became angry.
Afterwards he asked the son-in-law thus, "Where is even my yoke
of cattle?"
Thereupon the son-in-law said, "They are tied in the chena jungle." He
was angry also concerning that [the cattle being then dead or
nearly so].
For many a day afterwards he remained without talking with the
son-in-law. During the time while he is thus, that daughter who had
been given [in marriage] to an out-village, sent word that [her]
father and brother-in-law, both of them, must come.
Next day that father-in-law having cooked cakes, tied them in a bag,
and having cooked a bundle of rice, tied that also in a bag, in order
to go to the place where the Gamarala's elder daughter was given in
marriage. Then he called the son-in-law, saying, "Let us go."
The son-in-law, taking the cake bag, asked, "Father-in-law, what sort
is this?"