The Princess said, “Should [it] come [I] shall not come; should [it] not come, I shall come.”[1]
The Prince got into his mind, “This meant indeed (lit., said), ‘Should water come in the river I cannot come; should water not come I will come.’ ”
Again the Prince asked, “On which road go you to your house?”
Then the girl unfastened her hair knot; having unloosed it she went to the rice field.
Afterwards the Prince thought to himself, “Because of the girl’s unloosing her hair knot she goes near the Kitul palm tree indeed.”[2]
The Prince having gone near the Kitul tree to the girl’s home, remained lying down in the veranda until the girl came.
The girl having given the gruel came home. Having come there and cooked for the Prince she gave him to eat. Then the girl’s father came. After that, the girl and the Prince having married remained there.
While they were [there], one day the Prince said, “I must go to our city.” Then the girl also having said that she must go, as the girl and the girl’s father and the Prince, the three persons, were going along there was a rice field.
The girl’s father asked at the hand of the Prince, “Son-in-law, is this rice field a cultivated rice field, or an unworked rice field?”
Then the Prince said, “What of its being cultivated! If its corners and angles are not cut this field is an unworked one.”