In Wide-Awake Stories (Steel and Temple), p. 178—Folk Tales of the Punjab, p. 167—there is an account of the good luck of a kind girl and the bad luck of an unkind girl, but the incidents are unlike those of the Sinhalese story.
No. 70
The Jackal and the Leopard
In a certain country there is a Gamarāla. There is a goat-fold of the Gamarāla’s. At that goat-fold one by one the goats are disappearing during the night. Afterwards the Gamarāla having gone there [to watch for the thief] went to sleep. In the hand of the Gamarāla there was a lump of salt chillies.
Afterwards the Leopard came at night. The Leopard lifting each goat looks at it. Having looked, afterwards having lifted up the Gamarāla [and found he was the heaviest] he took him. Carrying him away he took him to his rock cave. Then the Gamarāla quickly [entered it, and] shut the door. The Leopard then was trying to go into the cave. Having heard the uproar the Jackal Paṇḍitayā came. “What is this, Sapu-flowers’ Minister, you are doing?” he asked.
“In other years I brought goats [and ate them without trouble]. That one having entered the cave has shut the door.”
“You, Sir, having put your tail inside the cave be pleased to wave it,” he said; the Jackal Paṇḍitayā said. “Do not catch hold of the tail,” he said [to the Gamarāla]. “Otherwise, having put thy foot against the wall, and having folded it two-fold or three-fold, hold it [fast],” he said. “Do not jam a little of the golden salt chillies under the tail of the Sapu-flowers’ Minister,” he said.