Thereupon the old thief, having brought to the house all the things taken out of the box which was at the foot of the King’s bed, gave them to the sooth-sayer through the window.
Then the Vedarāla slept until light having come it became daylight.
Afterwards, the King having sent messengers in the morning, they awoke the Vedarāla. Then the Vedarāla, thinking it unseasonable, said, “Who is talking to me without allowing me to sleep?” and silently went to sleep again. So the messengers returned and told the King.
Afterwards the King came and spoke to him, and opened the door. The Vedarāla having come out, said, “O Lord, Your Majesty, I was unable to seize the thieves; the things indeed I met with.”
Then the King said, “The thief does not matter; after you have met with the things it is enough.”
Then the King, catching a great many fire-flies and putting them in a coconut shell, asked the Vedarāla, “What is there in this?”
The sooth-sayer, becoming afraid, went as far as he could see him, and thinking, “I will strike my head against a tree and die,” came running and struck his head against a tree.[8] Then the sooth-sayer said, “O Father! It was as though a hundred fire-flies flew about.”
The King said, “That is true. They are indeed fire-flies that are in my hand.”
After that, the King caught a bird, and clenching it in his fist, asked the sooth-sayer, “What is there in this fist?”
The sooth-sayer, having become afraid, began to beat his head on a stone. Then he said, “Kurulu-gama Appu’s strength went (this time).”[9]