The Olive Fairy BookAndrew Lang Twenty-nine tales from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan. |
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Abeille Ameer Ameer Ali answered Antony Hamilton asked bade beautiful Beeka Mull began beheld bird bowed bunniah by-and-by clothes cockchafer cried daughter Déna door Dorani dressed eyes FAIRY BOOK fakir farmer father fell field-mouse flew forest friends Gangana garden gave Geirlaug girl gnomes Golden-headed Fish GREEN FAIRY BOOK Green Knight Grethari grew hand happened head heard heart horse husband Imani Ismenor king's kingdom knew lady Léna lived looked Maia marry merchant morning mother never night old woman OLIVE FAIRY BOOK once palace palanquin parrot prince princess queen rajah Ram Singh replied returned robbers round Samba sea-maiden sent sight Silent Princess sleep snake Snake Prince soon stone stood story sultan Swan fairy tell thing thought told took tree turned waiting walked wazir whilst wife wish witch wonderful words young Youri youth Zoulvisia
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Page 326 - "Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air, clad in the beauty of ten thousand stars,
Page 115 - she could never forgive herself for not having come near her all this time, and that she would now begin to make amends for her neglect. That very evening Subbar Khan came and sat up late with the old fakir playing chess as usual. Very tired, he at length bade him and the princess
Page 109 - I will give you the chance of gratifying your wish.' Then he sent for an old lame fakir who lived in a tumbledown hut on the outskirts of the city, and when he had presented himself, the king said: 'No doubt, as you are very old and nearly crippled, you would be glad
Page 110 - And what am I to ask for it?' said the old man. 'Two gold pieces,' replied the princess. So the fakir hobbled away, and stood in the marketplace to sell the cloth. Presently the elder princess drove by, and when she saw the cloth she stopped and asked the price.
Page 112 - But Imani, who was only considering how she could best untie the knot without breaking the thread, replied: 'Patience!' meaning that the messenger should wait till she was able to attend to him. But the messenger went off with this as an answer, and told the king that the only thing
Page 112 - was completed he bought for Kupti a beautiful ruby necklace. Then he said to a servant: 'The princess Imani wants some patience. I did not know there was such a thing, but you must go to the market and inquire, and if any is to be sold, get it
Page 110 - in the morning, she had spun the finest thread that ever was seen. Next she went to the loom and wove and wove until by the evening she had woven a beautiful silver cloth. 'Now,' said she to the fakir, 'go into the market-place and sell my cloth
Page 114 - the presents he had brought for them. Imani was very surprised when the casket was brought to her by the hand of a messenger. 'But,' she said, 'what is this? I never asked for anything! Indeed I had no time, for the messenger ran away before I had