By Andrew Lang
Twenty-nine stories from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan.
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Lino, the most polite man under the sun, to speak to his And to want horse's faithful servant in such a manner ! Why, he was so delicate in his appetite that he lived mostly on fruit and cakes. Well, well, there was no knowing what people would come to and, anyhow, he must obey at once, if he wished to keep his head flesh too ! ; on his shoulders. Perhaps, had driven him mad, and, come right again. Whatever excuses their Swan after if all, it so, was love which by-and-by he might his old servants might invent for master, by the time the procession reached the fairy's capital there were no more horses left, and they were forced to walk up to the palace on foot.
THE BLUE PAEEOT IN a part of Arabia where groves of palms and sweetscented flowers give the traveller rest after toilsome journeys under burning skies, there reigned a young king whose name was Lino. wise rule of his father, He had grown up under the lately died, and though who had he was only nineteen, he did not believe, like many young men, that he must change all the laws in order to show how clever he was, but was content with the old ones which had made the people happy and the country There was only one fault that his subjects prosperous.
The fatal had uttered man young asked the sultan Can you remove the spell ? ' ' anxiously. I think ' truth, was a so,' young man (who, to say the anxious himself), and stepping forward, replied the little he cried Let the victims of Madschun be free No sooner were the words uttered than the statues returned to life, and the bride placed her hand joyfully As for the old one, he in that of her new bridegroom. vanished completely, and no one ever knew what became : ' ' ! >of him. i Adapted from Turkische VolTcsmdrchen aus Stambul.
