The Prince asked, “Where are you taking that Monkey?”
The man said, “I am taking this to sell.”
The Prince asked, “For how much will you give it?”
The man said he would give it for a thousand masuran. The Prince gave the thousand masuran that were in his hands, and got the Monkey, and that man having taken the thousand masuran went away.
The Prince having unfastened the package of cooked rice, and given some to the Monkey also, and the Prince himself having eaten, took the Monkey and came back to the very city of the King. When he came there the King was not at the palace; only the Queen was there. The Queen asked, “What sort of goods have you brought?”
The Prince says, “Mother, having given that thousand masuran I have brought a Monkey.”
Then the Queen says, “Anē! Son, should the King and the rest of them get to know that, he will behead you and behead me. As you have taken that Monkey put it away somewhere.”
So the Prince took the Monkey and put it in a rock cave in the jungle, and shutting the door came to the palace. While he was there the King saw him, and having seen him, called the Queen and said, “I shall not allow that one to stay in my palace for even a pāēya (twenty minutes). I shall behead him to-morrow.”
Afterwards the Queen came to the Prince and said, “Son, the King says he must behead you to-morrow, therefore go to any place you like, and do not come back.”
The Prince said, “Give me a package of rice, and a thousand masuran.”