บทที่ บทที่ 149 · A Riddling Tale

. A Riddling Tale

Three women were changed into flowers which grew in the field, but one

of them was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day

was drawing near, and she was forced to go back to her companions in

the field and become a flower again, she said to her husband, “If thou

wilt come this afternoon and gather me, I shall be set free and

henceforth stay with thee.” And he did so. Now the question is, how did

her husband know her, for the flowers were exactly alike, and without

any difference? Answer: as she was at her home during the night and not

in the field, no dew fell on her as it did on the others, and by this

her husband knew her.