The six brothers made everything ready and one morning set out on their travels, without saying anything to Lelsing.  But Lelsing saw them start and followed after them, and as the brothers were resting in the middle of the day they looked back and saw Lelsing galloping along to overtake them.  So they all travelled together for three or four days, till they came to a great jungle and camped on its outskirts.  There they debated how long they should stay away from home and they decided that they would trade for six months and then go back.

The next morning they entered the jungle, and as they travelled through it, the six brothers managed to give Lelsing the slip, so that when they came out of the forest they found themselves at Nilam bazar, but Lelsing after wandering about for some time came out at Sujan bazar.

The six brothers bought sun-horses at Nilam bazar, and began to trade.  But Lelsing at Sujan bazar looked about for someone who would engage him as a servant.  No one would employ a mongoose, and Lelsing was in despair, for he had very little money.  At last he began to enquire whether anyone would sell him a cheap horse, and learnt that the horse market was at Nilam bazar; so he went to Nilam bazar and there found his brothers trading, but he did not make himself known to them.  He tried to buy a horse but they were all too highly priced for him, so at last he had to be content with buying a donkey for three rupees and some articles to trade with.

When the six months expired, the brothers went home; and a little after them came Lelsing, leading his donkey, his brothers laughed at him but the Raja did not laugh; and Lelsing showed his father and mother what profits he had made by his trading, which his brothers declined to do.  The Raja was pleased with Lelsing for this and declared that, in spite of his shape, he was a man and a Raja.  It only made his brothers more angry with him to hear Lelsing praised.

Two or three years later there was a famine in the land.  Lelsing foresaw it and he dug a large hole in the floor of his house and buried in it all the grain on which he could lay his hand.  The famine grew severe, but Lelsing and his mother always had enough to eat from their private store.  But his brothers were starving and their children cried from want of food.  Lelsing had pity on them and sent his mother with some rice for them to eat.  The Raja and his sons were amazed that Lelsing should have rice to give away, and they went to his house to see how much he had; but they found the house apparently empty, for they did not know of the store buried in the ground.  Puzzled and jealous the brothers made up their minds to burn down Lelsing’s house.  So one night they set fire to it, and it was burnt to ashes:  the store buried in the ground was however uninjured.