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So Queen Moonlight and Princess Beauty sat down under an ashoka tree near a lotus-pond in terrible weariness and fear and grief. Now a gentleman named Fierce-lion who lived near came on horseback with his son into that wood to hunt. The son's name was Strong-lion.
At the same moment the clouds gathered, it began to rain violently, and a mighty wind blew. And the ship was driven by the storm winds and caught on the flag-pole. Then the pole began to sink, dragging the ship with it into the raging waves. And the Brahmans who were there were overcome with fear and cursed the name of their king Fierce-lion.
Bathe. Eat." And he felt a little hope at her words and went to a pool in the garden which she showed him. He plunged into the pool, and when he rose to the surface, he found himself in the pool of King Fierce-lion in Copper City. And when he saw that he had come there so suddenly, he thought: "Oh, what does it mean? Where is that heavenly garden?
And as he walked along, the goblin said: "O King, I will tell you a story to amuse your weariness. Listen." On the shore of the Eastern Ocean is Copper City. There a king named Fierce-lion lived. He turned his back to other men's wives, but not to fighting men. He destroyed his enemies, but not other men's wealth. One day a popular prince named Good came from the south to the king's gate.
Then the goblin slipped from the king's shoulder as before, and quickly disappeared. And the king went back, determined to catch him. The Mutual Services of King Fierce-lion and Prince Good. Which is the more deserving? Then the king went back to the sissoo tree, put the goblin on his shoulder as before, and started.
The one with the bigger feet must be older. She is the wife for you." But Fierce-lion said: "My son, what do you mean? Your mother went to heaven before your eyes. When so good a wife is gone, how could I think of another?" But his son said: "Not so, Father. A householder's house is an empty place without a wife. Besides, you have surely heard what the poet says: What fool would go into a house?
Tis a prisoner's abode, Unless a buxom wife is there, Looking down the road. So, Father, I beg you on my life to marry the second one, whom I have chosen for you." Then Fierce-lion said "Very well," and went on slowly with his son, following the footprints. And when he came to the pond, he saw Queen Moonlight, radiant with beauty and charm. And with his son he eagerly approached her.
But when she saw him, she rose in terror, fearing that he was a robber. But her sensible daughter said: "There is no reason to fear. These two men are not robbers. They are two well-dressed gentlemen, who probably came here to hunt." Still the queen swung in doubt. Then Fierce-lion dismounted and stood before her. And he said: "Beautiful lady, do not be frightened. We came here to hunt.
Then, because the queen had smaller feet, the son Strong-lion married Queen Moonlight. And Fierce-lion, the father, married her daughter, the princess Beauty, because of the bigness of her feet. Who would break a promise that had been made solemnly? Thus, because of their inconsistent feet, the daughter became the wife of the father and the mother-in-law of her own mother.
And when he got there, he proclaimed the devotion of the pilgrim, and made him a rich man, but could not feel that he had paid his debt. So Good stayed there happily with King Fierce-lion and stopped living as a pilgrim. One day the king sent Good to Ceylon to ask for the hand of the daughter of the King of Ceylon.
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