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Page 149
... aiya , who can say ? Only a fool measures his grain before it is on the threshing - floor . ' ' Then all these villagers do that , for they are all fools . Aiyo ! what cattle ! what trouble they give a man ! ' ' We are poor men , aiya ...
... aiya , who can say ? Only a fool measures his grain before it is on the threshing - floor . ' ' Then all these villagers do that , for they are all fools . Aiyo ! what cattle ! what trouble they give a man ! ' ' We are poor men , aiya ...
Page 153
... aiya , of course many people die of fever here too . But they die among their rela- tions , and friends , and people who are known to them ; in houses where their fathers lived before them . Surely it is a more bitter thing to die in a ...
... aiya , of course many people die of fever here too . But they die among their rela- tions , and friends , and people who are known to them ; in houses where their fathers lived before them . Surely it is a more bitter thing to die in a ...
Page 299
... aiya , none ; we are very poor . ' ' Ah ! well . We can't tell you anything here . You must go to Kamburupitiya , and send a petition to the Agent Hamadoru . ' ' But you know my man , aiya ; you said you did . What harm to tell me ? Is ...
... aiya , none ; we are very poor . ' ' Ah ! well . We can't tell you anything here . You must go to Kamburupitiya , and send a petition to the Agent Hamadoru . ' ' But you know my man , aiya ; you said you did . What harm to tell me ? Is ...
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afraid Agent Hamadoru aiya Aiyo Amara Devi anger angry Appochchi Arachchi asked Babehami Babun Beddagama began Beragama brother Buddha buffalo called charm child cloth compound daughter deer devil elephant evil eyes face father fear felt Fernando fever fool girl give grain hami hand hang headman hear heard Hinni Hinnihami hunter judge jungle Kamburupitiya kapurala Karlinahami kill knew Korala Mahatmaya kunji kurakkan kurunies laughed leave leopard listen live looked magistrate Malay months morning Mudalali Nanchohami never night path peon pilgrims prison Punchi Appu Punchi Menika Punchirala rain Ratemahatmaya rice Rodiya round sanyasi silence Silindu Sinhalese slowly squatted stood strange talk Tamils tank tell temple thing thought tired told took track trees trouble veddas vederala village walked watched wife wild woman women words yakka Yakkini yakko