II

TIME AND THE KINGS OF THE ELEMENTS

HERE was once a married pair who loved each other

tenderly. The husband would not have given up his
wife for all the riches in the world, while her first thought
was how best to please him. So they were very happy, and
lived like two grains in one ear of corn.

One day while working in the fields, a great longing came
over him to see her: so without waiting for the hour of sunset
he ran home. Alas! she was not there. He looked high
and low, he ran here, there, and everywhere, he wept, he
called to her; in vain! his dear wife was not to be found.

Io