After that, the female Lark having gone near the Crow, says to the Crow, “Anē! Friend, that tusk elephant which broke into bits my two eggs has fallen into the pool in such and such a garden. You go and pluck out its eyes, and pierce and pierce its face in two or three places with your bill, and come back.”
After that, the Crow having come, plucked out the tusk elephant’s two eyes and ate them; and having pierced and pierced the face in two or three places with its bill, came ashore, and said to the female Lark, “Look there. Friend, I was of another assistance [to you]. Now then, you look [after it yourself].” Having said it the Crow went away.
After that, the female Lark having gone near the Bee says to the Bee, “Friend, the Frog was of assistance to me, the Crow also was of assistance to me; only you have not yet been. The tusk elephant that broke to pieces my two eggs has fallen into the pool at such and such a garden, and his eyes have been plucked out. You go and beat [and sting] his head.”
After that, the Bee having come and beaten the tusk elephant’s head, the tusk elephant died in that very pool. Afterwards the Bee also went away.
On account of it, they still say in the form of verse:—
Being a handful merely, the Bush Lark Hen
Got a tusker killed. Was it right, O Hen?[2]
North-western Province.
According to a variant from Ūva, the nest of the bird, containing its two young ones, fell on the path on which the elephants passed. The bird begged them to be careful, and not to tread on them, but the king of the elephants deliberately trampled on the young birds. With the help of the crow, the blue-fly, and the frog, the elephant was killed, and the bird then strutted about on its dead body.