Page 320, line 9. For don’t read Don’t.
Line 31. For plantains read plantains’.
Page 321. In Les Avadānas, vol. ii, p. 51, and Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues, vol. ii, p. 183, a man who drank water that was flowing through a wooden pipe twice ordered the water to stop when he had finished. He was called a fool, and led away.
In the latter work, vol. ii, p. 269, there is an account of the boy who killed the mosquito that had settled on his sleeping father’s head.
Page 327. Add to second note, In the Kathā Sarit Sāgara, vol. ii, p. 497, the assessors at a trial acted as judges, but the sentence was pronounced by the King,—as in The Little Clay Cart, also. Compare also the orders of King Mahinda IV (A.D. 1026–1042) regarding the judicial powers of a court of village assessors, consisting of headmen and householders. They were required to try even cases of murder and robbery with violence, and to inflict the death penalty (Wickremasinghe, Epigraphia Zeylanica, vol. i, p. 249).
Page 329. In The Indian Antiquary, vol. iii, p. 28, in a Maisur story by V. Narasimmiyengār, the Bhāratas’ Government took as its share or tax the upper half of a root crop, and got only leaves and stalks. For the next year, when the Government announced that the root part of the crop would be taken, the cultivators sowed paddy, rāgi (millet), wheat, etc., and the tax collector got only straw.
In Campbell’s Santal Folk Tales, p. 93, a tiger and crane joined together, and planted a garden with turmeric. The tiger had the first choice of his share of the crop, and decided to take the leaves, leaving the roots for the crane. When the crop was gathered and the tiger found his share was valueless he quarrelled with the crane, which pecked his eyes and blinded him.
Page 335. A variant regarding a Maḍitiya tree (Adenanthera pavonina) was related by a Tom-tom Beater of the North-Western Province. A man told the King that he had planted a golden seedling, and was given food and drink and ordered to take great care of it. When a flood carried it away he lamented and rolled about in assumed grief before the King, who after pacifying him ordered him to plant another golden seed. He made the same cryptic remark to his wife as in the other tale.
Page 338. In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, p. 260, the incident of the sickle that had fever occurs, but the person who left it to reap the crop was an intelligent man who pretended to be stupid so as to trick a farmer.
Page 341. In two Sinhalese variants of the North-Western Province, the animal which the man saved was a crocodile, and the first animals applied to for their opinions were a lean cow and a Nāga raja or cobra, both of which advised the crocodile to kill the man. When the jackal was appealed to it sat upon an ant-hill to hear the case, got the crocodile and man to come there out of the water, and then told the man to kill it with a stick, after which it ate the flesh.