Afterwards, the woman that day night having stayed there, after the
Prince went to sleep taking the gem-set ring and taking also the
Princess [by means of it], gave them to the King.
The Prince having awoke, when he looked there were no Princess and no
gem-set ring. The Parrot indeed knows the place where they are. He
cannot summon the Princess and come [with her], he cannot get the
gem-set ring.
Owing to it he told the Cat to be [lying as though] sleeping at the
corn-stack threshing-floor (kola-kamate):--"While you are there the
rats will put their paws into your mouth. Do not seize them. When
the King has put his paws in it seize him; do not let him go."
After that, the Cat having gone [there], while he was [lying as though]
sleeping at the corn-stack threshing-floor, the rats put their paws in
his mouth. He did not seize them. The Rat King having come, and said,
"One with cooking pot's mouth (appalla-kata), are you asleep?" put
his paw there. Then the Cat seized him. [He explained to the Rat
King that he wanted a rat to assist him, as the condition on which
he would release him.]
The Rat King said, "Seize thou any rat thou wantest." Having said,
"Take this rat chief," he gave him. Afterwards the Cat let go [the
Rat King].
The Parrot, calling that rat [who had been appointed to assist him],
went to the palace in which was the Princess. After the rat had cut
[his way into] seven boxes, there was a gem-set ring [in the last one].
Taking it, when he gave it to the Parrot, the Parrot said, "This ring
is not ours (apata nae)."
Afterwards the Parrot and the rat having come near the Prince,
[the rat] said, "I cut into seven boxes; there was one ring. When I
gave it to the Parrot youngster (gira-potakayata) the Parrot said,
'It is not ours,'" he said.