At a certain time there were a woman and her husband, two
persons. During the time while they were [there], one day the husband
said to the woman, "I am going to-day to the watch-hut. Having gone
there, I shall not come back to-morrow morning; I shall be delayed,
ploughing the field below that field. Because of it, you must bring
me cooked rice to-morrow morning."
Then the woman during the whole night [158] having abundantly given
food and the like to her paramours, without sleeping, it became
light. After that, the woman went to sleep.
[After] going to sleep, being without the means of bringing cooked rice
[through want of time to cook it], she washed rice, putting it in a
cooking-pot, and cut up dried fish and brinjal, [159] putting them raw
into a large cooking-pot, and took them to the rice field [uncooked].
After she went, that man said, "Bola! Strumpet! Didst thou stay
with thy paramours until so much time has gone?" and scolded her
[for being late].
Thereupon, this woman, saying, "Apoyi! Because you said such a vile
word to me may the cooked rice and curry which I brought for you
become raw," put them down on the ground.
When the man looked, the woman's speech was true; the cooked rice and
curry had become raw. After that, the man, having said to the woman
that she was a good woman, thoroughly respected her.
North-central Province.