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Updated: June 24, 2025
What would have been the best thing for Subha Datta to ask for, if he had decided to let the fairies keep their pitcher? You can just imagine what a surprise it was to Subha Datta's wife and children when they saw him coming along the path leading to his home.
Now I want money; I can't endure servitude any longer. Where will money come from? From the Datta house where else? To get the Datta money, then, must be my object. Every one knows that Nagendra Babu's eyes have fallen on Kunda; the Babu worships her. What great people wish, they can accomplish. The only obstacle is Surja Mukhi.
It's a magic pitcher the only one there is in the whole wide world. You get the food you would like to have first, and then we'll tell you what we want." Subha Datta could hardly believe his ears when he heard that. Down he threw his axe, and hastened to put his hand in the pitcher, wishing for the food he was used to.
One morning early, the wicked Hira came into her mistress's house ready for work. There was a servant in the Datta household named Kousalya, who hated Hira because she was head servant and enjoyed the favour of the mistress. Hira said to her: "Sister Kushi, I feel very strange to-day; will you do my work for me?"
Subha Datta, though he certainly did love his wife and children, was so tempted at the idea of stopping in the forest with the beautiful girls that, after hesitating a little while, he said, "Yes, I will stop with you, if you are quite sure all will be well with my dear ones." "You need not be afraid about that," said another of the girls.
Soon Subha Datta could not sleep well for thinking of the wife and children he had deserted. Suppose they were hungry when he had plenty to eat! It even came into his head that he might steal the pitcher and take it home with him when the fairies were away.
Kunda could not answer; but Surja Mukhi, seizing her hand, said, "Come, sister, I will not say anything more to you!" and took her indoors. On the night of that day, Debendra Datta, alone, in disguise, excited by wine, went to Hira's house in search of Kunda Nandini. He looked in the two huts, but Kunda was not there. Hira, covering her face with her sari, laughed at his discomfiture.
At last, finding he could not steady himself, he said, "Go for to-day; I will worship you with cakes and flesh of goat on the night of the dark moon." Then the spirit, laughing, said, "Are you well, Boisnavi Didi?" "Good heavens!" said the tipsy one, "are you a spirit from the Datta family?"
At these questions all the fairies began to laugh, and the sound of their laughter was like the tinkling of a number of bells. What was there to laugh at in the questions of Subha Datta? What is your idea of a fairy?
Subha Datta no longer went to cut wood to be sold, and the boys also left off doing so. Every day their father fetched food for them all, and the greatest desire of each one of the family was to find out where it came from. They never could do so, for Subha Datta managed to make them afraid to follow him when he went forth with his basket.
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