THE STORY OF THE WOODEN PEACOCK

In a certain country there are a Carpenter and a Hettirala, it is

said. There are also the wives of the two persons; there are also

the two sons of the two persons.

The Carpenter and the Hettirala spoke together: "Let us send our two

children to school." Having spoken thus, they sent the Carpenter's

son and the Hettirala's son to school. At the time when the two had

been going to school no long period, the Hettirala took and gave a

cart and a bull to the Hettirala's son. Well then, the Hettirala's son

goes to school in the cart; the Carpenter's son goes on the ground. A

day or two having gone by he does not go again.

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