AT a village there are an elder sister and a younger sister, two persons. The two are going away, it is said. While going, they saw two bulls going along. Then the cattle asked, “Where are you going ?” “We are going to a country where they give to eat and to wear” (meaning that they were in search of husbands). “Are we good enough for you ?” 1 the cattle asked. “What do you eat ?” they asked. “Having been put in those chenas we eat paddy and jungle vegetables.” Saying, “We don't want you,” the two women go on. As they were going, they met with two jackal-dogs. “Where are you going ?” they asked the two women. “We are going to a country where they give to eat and to wear,” they said. “Are we good enough for you ?” they asked. “What do you eat ?” they asked. “We eat a few fruits and crabs,” the two ijackals said. “What do you eat ?” “We eat dried-fish fry,” they said. Saying “We do not want two jackals,” the two women still go on. While they were going, an elder brother and a younger brother were ploughing. They asked the two women, “Where are you going ?” “We are going to a country where they give to eat and to wear,” they said. [Page 114] “Are we good enough for you ?” they asked. The two women asked, “What do you eat ?” “We eat dry-fish fry,” they said. “Then both parties eat it,” they said. “It is good.” “If so, it is good. Go to our house,” the men said.2 Afterwards those two men, having given the two keys of their houses into the hands of the elder sister and the younger sister, said, “The cooking things are in such a place ; go there, and having opened the doors cook until we come.” Then the two women went to the houses, and the elder sister opened the door of the elder brother’s house and cooked; and the younger sister opened the door of the younger brother’s house and cooked. Afterwards the two men came home, and having eaten, stopped there [with the sisters, as their husbands]. After many days had passed, the two sisters bore two girls. The younger sister had many things at her house; the elder sister had none. On account of that, the elder sister through ill-feeling thought, “I must kill younger sister.” One day, the two sisters having cooked rice, while they were taking it to the rice field the younger sister went in front, and the elder sister went behind. On the way, they came near the river. Then the elder sister said, “Younger sister, didst thou never bathe ? The skin on thy back is dirty. Take off that necklace and the clothes on thy body, and lay them down, and let us bathe and then go.” They put down the two mat boxes of cooked rice, and having descended into the river, she called, while bathing, to her sister, “Younger sister, come here for me to rub thy back.” While rubbing she threw her into the middle of the river. Then she took the two boxes of cooked rice and went to the rice field. The younger sister died in the river. After the elder sister went to the rice field,