Then they both
turned to go home. But as she was turning homewards, she felt some
one pull her by the legs. She looked down and saw that it was her
missing son. When she saw him she dragged him with all her might to
the bank, and then she and her brother walked home with him. When
the king heard that she was coming, together with her missing son,
he wondered greatly, and going to her he fell at her feet and said,
"O my daughter, I offered your son to the water-goddesses; how has
he come back again?" She said, "I worshipped the water-goddesses
and made offerings to them. Then my son came out of the water, and
I lifted him up and drew him to the shore." The king was overjoyed
and showed the greatest favour to his daughter-in-law. And she and
her little son lived happily ever afterwards.
CHAPTER XVIII
The Lid of the Sacred Casket
Once upon a time there was a town called Atpat. In it there lived a
Brahman who had two twin sons. While they were still quite young,
the twins' parents died, and their relatives stole from them all
their property and then turned them out of the house.
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