And ’mid the lower lands the frolic watery.”
After that, as the man was coming home taking the bird, there was a grass field by the path. Having struck the bird [on the ground] in the field, the man asked, “Mango Bird, was that day good, [or] is to-day good?”
Then the bird says,
“Both that day was good and to-day is good
Through eating the mangoes of a Mango tree,
Looking if hardness in Mango root there be,
’Mid the lower lands the frolic watery,
Keeping up old customs on the grassy lea.”
After that, the man having taken the bird, as he was going home struck the bird on the road stile, and asked, “Mango Bird, was that day good, [or] is to-day good?”
Then the bird says,