So they made ready with speed, and in great glee started off
on foot to visit their mothers. After they had walked a long distance,
chatting about what they should do and whom they should see in their
native village, the high heel of one of them slipped from under her
foot, and she fell down. Owing to this mishap both stopped to adjust
the misplaced footgear, and while doing this the conditions under
which alone they could return to their husbands came to mind, and they
began to cry.
While they sat there crying by the roadside a young girl came riding
along from the fields on a water buffalo. She stopped and asked them
what was the matter, and whether she could help them. They told her
she could do them no good; but she persisted in offering her sympathy
and inviting their confidence, till they told their story, and then
she at once said that if they would go home with her she would show
them a way out or their trouble. Their case seemed so hopeless to
themselves, and the child was so sure of her own power to help them,
that they finally accompanied her to her father's house, where she
showed them how to comply with their father-in-law's demand.
For the first a paper lantern only would be needed.
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