A young married woman one night listened to the jackals' cry, and heard
them say: "Near the river lies a dead man; go and look on his finger
and you will find a ring worth nine lakhs of rupees." She therefore
rose and went to the riverside, not knowing that her husband secretly
followed in her footsteps. Arrived there, she found the dead man, but
the ring was difficult to remove, so she drew it off with her teeth.
Her husband, who did not know she had understood and acted upon the
cry of the jackals, was horrified, and thought she was eating the flesh
of the dead man; so he returned home, and when the morning came, took
his wife to her mother, and said: "I have brought back your daughter,
and refuse to live with her any longer, lest I come to some evil
end." He gave no reason for having thus said, and returned to his home.
In the evening his wife sat sorrowfully in the garden of her father's
house, and the crows came to roost in the peepul trees; and as they
came, they said: "In this place are buried four boxes containing
hidden treasure: dig and find it, O my daughter." The young girl
called her parents and told them the message of the crows. At first
they laughed, but, after a while, they dug as she directed, and found
treasure which enriched the whole family. The girl then explained the
story of the dead man's ring, and her husband gladly forgave her and
received her back.