Then the Hettirala having become angry, said, "Thou must bring anything
that falls, whether from me or from the horse," and he scolded him.
After that, Sokka picked up the dung which the horse dropped,
and began to put it in the clothes box. In that way and this way,
at noon the time for eating came.
On that road there was a travellers' shed. For the purpose of eating
food at that travellers' shed they halted. Having opened the box in
order to eat, when [the Hettirala] looked there was nothing of food
in the box. "Where is the food that was in this?" he asked Sokka.
Sokka said, "I don't know what was [in it] when it was given to me,
indeed."
The Hettirala being very hungry, and in anger with Sokka also, started
to go. Having gone, when they were coming near his younger sister's
village he said to Sokka, "Go thou, and tell them to be quick and
cook a little food because I am fatigued."
Then Sokka having gone said to the Hettirala's younger sister and
brother-in-law, "The Hettirala is coming; as he has become ill he is
coming. Because of it, he does not eat anything. He said that having
removed the shells from unripe pulse and prepared balls of it, you
are to place them [ready]; and that having killed a fowl for me I
am to eat it with cooked rice, he said. The Hettirala at night is
himself accustomed to salt gruel."
Afterwards that party, having prepared them, gave them in the
evening. The Hettirala because of fatigue having eaten these things
and drunk a great deal of salt gruel, went to sleep. (It is necessary
to draw a veil over the nocturnal difficulties of the Hettirala owing
to the purgative action of his evening's repast. In the morning)
the Hettirala thought to himself, "It is Sokka himself makes the
whole of these traps. Because of it I must kill him."
Well then, having said, "We must go," and having opened the clothes
box, when he looked horse-dung had been put [in it]. Then at the time
when the Hettirala asked, "Sokka, what is this?" he said, "That day
you told me to take anything that falls from the Hettirala or from
the horse. Because of it I put these things away; I put them in that,
without omitting one."
After that, having set off, they went away to go home. Having gone a
considerable distance, when they were approaching the house he said
to Sokka, "Go thou, and as there has been no food for me for two days
or three days, tell grandmother to prepare something for food."
Having said "Ha," Sokka having gone running, says, "Grandmother,
madness having seized him, the Hettirala is coming. No one can speak
[to him]; then he beats them. You will be unable to be rid of it." He
said all these words.