Thereupon the Hettirala says, "It is good. If so get ready to go
to-morrow morning."
Having given the Prince a plough also, and having arisen at daybreak,
the Hettirala set off to go on a journey. Calling the Prince on the
journey on which he is going, and having gone and shown the Prince
the Hettirala's fields, he says, "Look there. From the place where
that egret is perched plough to that side until the time when I have
gone on this journey and come back."
Well then, this Prince says to the Hettirala, "It is good,
Hetti-elder-brother. Let Him go on the journey He is going. [239]
I will plough to the place where the egret is."
Taking over the charge, and having started off the Hettirala and
sent him away, he tied the yoke of bulls in the plough. When he went
driving them to the place where the egret is, the egret having gone
flying perched at another place. Driving the yoke of bulls he went
there also. The egret having gone flying from there also, perched at
another place. Driving the yoke of bulls he went there also. From there
also the egret having gone flying, perched at another place. Thereupon
the Prince, driving the yoke of bulls and having gone to the root of
the tree, taking a large stick and beating and beating the yoke of
bulls, says, "Why, bulls (gonnune)! Go to the place where the egret
is. Should you two not go to the place where the egret is I shall
not succeed in escaping from the Hettirala; to-day there is not any
work [done], and I myself did not eat." Saying and saying [this],
he began to beat the yoke of bulls. While he was there beating and
beating them it became night.
The Hettirala, also, having made that journey, came to the
house. Having come there the Hettirala asks, he asks from the house
people, "Hasn't the fool himself who went to the rice field come?"
Thereupon the house people say, "After he went with the
Hetti-elder-brother in the morning, he did not come back."
The Hettirala says, "Apoyi! As that fool himself came not there will
be some accident or other!"
Quickly having gone running to the rice field, when he looked, at
no place in the rice field had [the ground] been ploughed, and he
does not see the yoke of bulls or the man. When the Hettirala looks
on that and this side, the Prince whom the Hettirala came to seek
having seen him, breaking a large cudgel he began to beat the yoke
of bulls more and more, as though he did not see him.
Thereupon the Hettirala, having heard this noise when he looked,
having heard it and gone running, asks, "Why, fool! What is this you
are doing?"
The Prince says, "Go away, go aside. From the morning itself I drove
and drove this yoke of bulls [so as] to go to the place where the egret
is. They did not go yet. You are good, the way the bulls have been
trained!" Having said [this], the Prince began to scold the Hettirala.
Thereupon the Hettirala says, "Yes, the way that yoke of bulls has
been trained is indeed not good. Because the bulls will not go up
trees those bulls are not good. Afterwards taking a yoke of bulls that
go up trees you can plough. Let us go now, to go home." Having said
[this], he came calling the Prince.
The Hettirala's wife asks, "Even to-day did that fool do even that
work?"
The Hettirala says, "To-day indeed don't speak to that fool. He has
been very angry. Because he was angry I came calling him, without
speaking anything."
Thereupon the woman having been silent that day, on the next day began
to scold the Hettirala and the Prince. The Hettirala having thought,
"Should I remain causing this fool to stay he will cause much loss
to me. Having gone, taking him, and having spoken to my son-in-law,
I must put him in a ship and send him away." Having thought thus,
and having spoken to the Hettirala's wife, he says, "Don't you scold;
I am sending him away soon." Thereupon the woman remained without
making any talk.
Then the Hettirala says, "Taking him I must go to-morrow or the
next day; having prepared a suitable thing (food) for it give me
it." Thereupon the woman having gone, and very well prepared a food
box to give to her daughter and son-in-law, and for these two persons
to eat for food on the road a package of cooked rice, gave him them.
The Hettirala tied them well, and taking also a suit (coat and cloth,
kuttamak) of the Hettirala's new clothes to wear when they got near the
son-in-law's house, and having tied them in one bundle, and called the
Prince, he says, "We two must go on a journey and return. Can you go?"