From that time, the party became rich there to a good degree. The girl’s father, and step-mother, and step-mother’s girl, having gone to the place where she is, obtained a subsistence from there.

North-western Province.

Messrs. H. B. Andris and Co., of Kandy, have been good enough to inform me that the wawnna is a kind of spindle or yarn-holder, two and a half feet long, on which the thread is wound after spinning. It is narrow in the middle part and wider at each end. The rodda is eighteen inches long.


[1] Giya haeṭiyē āwē nāe. [↑]

No. 118

The Wicked Elder Brother

In a certain country there are a woman and a man, it is said. There is a younger sister of the man. The elder brother’s wife is very dear to the younger sister; the younger sister is a very good girl.