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this Now why should we pass any more time !"
Then they both flew at once. They soon reached the mountain. From there they brought in their beaks two mangoes-one of yellow colour and the other of saffron colour. They threw them in the lap of Vayarsen. Vayarsen had already heard the con versation between the two parrots. He awakened Amarsen and said:
"Brother! At times we cannot help talking about fortune. You had said only. recently that one who keeps himself gets, while one who goes to sleep loses. I have got something by keeping myself awake. But I had also said that one who keeps himself waking awakens the other one who is sleeping and that the one who gets does not allow the sleeping one to lose. So you take one of these mangoes."
Saying so, Vayarsen gave the bigger mango of saffron colour to Amarsen. Vayaresn himself ate the other smaller mango of yellow colour.
