This is partly a variant of the story No. 22, in vol. i, called
there "The Kule-Baka Flowers." The first part is a repetition of the
narrative given in that one, up to the point where the King's sons
were imprisoned at the gambling house. It then continues as follows:--
The Prince who also went afterwards having gone near a widow-mother
of that very city [after] filling a bag with bits of plates, when
he said, "Mother, a son of yours was lost before, is it not so?" the
widow woman said "Yes." Then the Prince while weeping falsely said,
"It is I myself."
After that, she said, weeping, "Ane! Son, where did you go all this
time?" [293] Having gone inviting him into the house, and given him
to eat, after he finished she asked, "What is there in this bag, son?"
The Prince says falsely, "In that bag are masuran, mother," he said.
The woman says, "What are masuran to me, son! Look at that: the heap
of masuran which the King has given for my having worked."