ABSTRACT
This is about a certain Youth, there was no one so handsome as he in the whole city, and his name was Denkin Deridi (1). Now all the Maidens were in love with him, so he said that only she who knew his name should be his Wife; for in the whole city there was no one who knew it except a certain Old Woman. And all the Maidens started to cook special dishes, the first boiled rice, the second grilled meat, the next made a porridge of guinea-corn flour, the next Maiden one of millet, the next boiled bitter roots (2) like potatoes, another bread-fruit, and the last made a dish of evil-smelling dadawam basso (3).
