After the elder sister went to the rice field, the younger brother asked at the hand of the elder sister, “Why has no one come from our house?”
Then the elder sister said, “Andō! Catch her coming![3] Isn’t she playing [illicit] games at home?” Having given the two boxes of rice to the elder brother and the younger brother, that woman returned home.
Afterwards that younger sister’s girl asked, “Loku-Ammā,[4] where is our mother?”
Then the woman said, “Andō! Catch her coming! When I came she was still stopping in the rice field.”
After it became night, the elder brother and the younger brother having come home, the younger brother asked, “Girl, where is thy mother?”
Then the girl said, “At noon she took cooked rice to the rice field with Loku-Ammā; she has not come yet.”
The younger brother said, “Where? She did not go to the rice field.”
Then the girl said, “At the time when I asked at the hand of Loku-Ammā, ‘Where is our mother?’ she said, ‘She is at the rice field.’ ”
Afterwards the elder sister, calling the elder brother and the younger brother, both of them [to be her husbands], took her sister’s goods, and remained there with them. From the next day, having cooked she gave the rice into the hands of the two girls to take to the rice field.
After the girls had gone near the river for two or three days, they saw one day a White Turtle in it, and approached and tried to catch it. When the elder sister’s girl went to catch it, it went to the middle of the river; when the younger sister’s girl went, it came to the bank, and rubbed itself over the whole of her body.