Having said [this], the younger sister, having gone outside, and made fast and tied up the stile, and come back quickly, and given her elder brothers to eat, became as though not knowing anything [about them].
While she was there, when the Rākshasa is coming saying “Hū” three times, the three elder brothers were frightened. The ass was more frightened than that; it began to move about.
Then the younger sister says, “Elder brother, there! The Rākshasa is coming! Remain without moving about until it becomes light to-morrow.”
“It is good, younger sister,” Three-cubits, the youngest elder brother, said.
There! When that little time was going the Rākshasa came. Washing his face and mouth, he sat down to eat food. Having sat down, eating and eating food, he says, “There is a smell of human flesh; there is a smell of human flesh.”
Then the Rākshasī says, “If you eat human flesh, and in your mouth there is human flesh, and in your hand there is human flesh, is there not a smell of human flesh?”
“No, it is a smell of fresh human flesh.”
When the Rākshasī said, “If so, it is to eat me you say that,” the Rākshasa, having eaten without speaking, rolled over at that very place and went to sleep.
All One-cubit’s party (Ekriyanalā), through the fatigue of the journey, the whole of them (sēramanṭama) went fast asleep. When a little time is going by, a red ant (dimiyā) having come out of a red ants’ nest, and as it was going along having climbed up the ass’s leg, the red ant bit it. Then the ass, making a sound “Tok, tok,” began to kick the boards [of the floor].
Then One-cubit opened his eyes. When he was looking what was the noise, it was the noise of the ass kicking. Then One-cubit held the legs of the ass, for it not to make the noise.