"Those livers were not the children's
livers," answered the Rani; "I have just seen the children alive and
playing in the jungle." "They must have been other people's children
that you saw," said the sepoy, "yours I killed." "Do not tell me
lies," said the Rani. "Now you must at once go to the jungle, kill the
children, and bring me their eyes." The sepoy went to find the
children, but when he found them he could not kill them, so he took
them to some people who lived in a hut, and said to these people,
"Take great care of the two children. Be very kind to them." He then
killed two goats and took their eyes to the Rani, who was now
satisfied for some time. But one day another of the Pomegranate
Raja's sepoys passed near the hut, and saw the children playing about.
So he went to Sunkasi Rani and told her the children were alive and
well. At this the Rani was very angry, and she thought, "It is of no
use my sending the first sepoy again to kill them. I will send this
man." She said, therefore, to the second sepoy, "If you will kill
these children for me, you shall have a great reward." The sepoy
agreed, went to the little hut, and seized the children. The poor
people who took care of the children begged and prayed him to have
pity on them; but the sepoy said, "No." He had the Rani's orders to
kill them, and they must and should be killed. And so he killed them
and brought their livers to the Rani as she had bidden him. Sunkasi
Rani was very happy when she saw the livers, and she buried them close
to a large tank that was in her garden.

Some three months later her servants came to her and told her a
beautiful large bel-fruit was floating on the water of the tank.
Sunkasi Rani went at once with them to the tank, and when she saw the
fruit she was seized with a great longing to have it. So she sent all
her servants, one after the other, into the tank to fetch it; but all
to no purpose, for as soon as any one of them got close to the fruit
it floated away from him. Then the Rani herself went into the tank.
She, however, was not a whit more able to get it: when she thought she
had only to put out her hand to take it, the fruit rose up into the
air, and fell into the water again as soon as she had come up out of
the tank. She went to the Maharaja and told him of this lovely
bel-fruit, and then went to her room while he came down to the tank.
He said, "I should like to catch the fruit: I wonder if I can do so.
What a lovely fr