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flowers. These flowers, he sold, and with the money be thus 

 realized, he procured more sugar and water, and going to the 

 flower gardens that day* he obtained, in return for what he 

 gave, a quantity of flowering shrubs. Thus in a short time he 

 accumulated eight kahapanas. 



Afterwards, on a very windy and rainy day, a large 

 quantity of withered trunks of trees, dried branches and plants 

 were blown down in the royal gardens, and the gardener 

 could devise no plan to clear the grounds of them. The man 

 then went to the gardener and said, If you will give me these 

 branches, &c ; I will clear the garden of them ; and to this the 

 gardener consented. Chullantewasiko then went to the child- 

 ren's play ground, and inducing them to help him by giving 

 them bits of sugar, he in a short time had the whole brought 

 out of the garden and piled outside. At that juncture, the 

 king's potters, having a great quantity of earthen vessels to 

 burn for the royal use, were seeking firewood for the purpose, 

 and seeing this heap of fuel> bought it from him. That day 

 Chullantewasiko obtained sixteen kahapanas and 500 earthen 

 vessels by the sale of his fire-wood. 



When he had accumulated twenty kahapanas, he formed 

 another scheme : he went a short distance from the city to 

 the grass market, and placing vessels with water, he supplied 

 from them 500 grass-cutters. They said to him, Friend, you 

 have been very serviceable to us, what shall we give you in 

 return ? He replied, you shall requite me when a necessity 

 occurs. Thus, going from place to place, he contracted friend- 

 ship and acquaintance with the traders. One day, he received 

 information from them, that on the morrow a merchant would 

 come to the city with 500 horses. Hearing this, he immediate- 

 ly went to the grass-cutters, and said, to day let each one of 

 you give me a bundle of grass 3 and let no person sell any till 



