How a Woman Ate Cooked Rice by Stealth

HOW A WOMAN ATE COOKED RICE BY STEALTH In a certain country there are a woman and a man, it is said. There is also a little one of the woman's; the little one…

HOW A WOMAN ATE COOKED RICE BY STEALTH

In a certain country there are a woman and a man, it is said. There is also a little one of the woman's; the little one cannot talk well yet.

Having waited until the time when the man goes to the watch-hut [at night], this woman every day while he is in the chena having cooked raw-rice eats small beans (maekaral) [with it] in the house. Every day having cooked fry of them (the beans), and given to the little one, they eat it every day at night [without his knowledge].

One day, at the time when the man comes, the little one says, "Father, having cooked maekittan fry, and having cooked raw-rice, let us eat her, eh?"

Then that man says at the hand of the woman, "What, Bolan, does this one say?"

The woman says, "I don't know. He eats in dreams, maybe. Cause thread to be charmed for it and come back."

Afterwards the man, causing the thread to be charmed, came and tied it on the arm of the little one.