Deccan nursery tales; or, Fairy tales from the south . to bed beneath it. Parwatiappeared to the little girl in her sleep. Thegoddess said, My child, a snake will cometo bite your husband: give it milk to put near it a new earthen jar. When thesnake has finished drinking, it will enter theearthen jar. Then at once pull off your bodiceand stuff it into the jars mouth. Next morninggive the jar to your mother. Next eveningeverything happened as Parwati had snake came to bite her husband as heslept. But the little girl offered it milk, whichit drank. After drinking, it curled i
Deccan nursery tales; or, Fairy tales from the south . to bed beneath it. Parwatiappeared to the little girl in her sleep. Thegoddess said, My child, a snake will cometo bite your husband: give it milk to put near it a new earthen jar. When thesnake has finished drinking, it will enter theearthen jar. Then at once pull off your bodiceand stuff it into the jars mouth. Next morninggive the jar to your mother. Next eveningeverything happened as Parwati had snake came to bite her husband as heslept. But the little girl offered it milk, whichit drank. After drinking, it curled itself upinside the earthen jar, and, the moment it didso, the little girl slipped off her bodice andstuffed it into the mouth of the jar. Nextmorning her husband gave her a ring, and shein exchange gave him a sweet-dish, and he andhis uncle continued their journey to they had gone, the little girl gave theearthen jar with the snake inside it to hermother. The mother took out the bodice, butinstead of a snake a garland lay inside, and 22. IT CURLED ITSELF UP INSIDE THE EARTHED JAR. THE TUESDAY STORY the mother put it round her little daughtersneck. Some weeks passed, but neither unclenor nephew returned. So the little girlsparents grew anxious. The sick boy who wasto have been her husband recovered, but shecould no longer marry him, and the boy whomshe had married had gone away and mightnever return. In despair the parents built ahouse, in which they entertained every travellerwho passed by, hoping that sooner or later oneof the travellers would prove to be theirdaughters husband. To all of them themother gave water ; the daughter washed theirfeet ; her brother gave them sandal-woodpaste ; and her father gave them it was all in vain ; none of the travellersfingers fitted the ring given to the little girlby her husband, nor could any of themproduce the sweet-dish which she had givenhim in exchange. In the meantime the uncle and nephew hadreached Benares
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