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THE DRAWERS OF WATER
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laughing as she went out to get her pitcher. "Fifty! Do you really wish for as many?"
Kanak smiled sadly and said, "It's a sin even to say so. But if all the fifty were of the same sort as the one given me by Fate, it would hardly matter. If I meet none, I am a chaste and devoted wife even if married to a crore of men."
"The Kulin girl's lot!" exclaimed the other and quickly got a tiny pitcher from the kitchen. The pitcher perfectly matched the carrier of water. Then they both marched off towards the river. Kanak laughed and said, "Come now, my proud girl, let's go and show beauty's splendour to the gaping idiots."
"Hang you, monkey!" cried the other and hid her blushing face in her veil.
