The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ings set with precious jewels on her fingers; and in her hand was a rod of Indian cane : and she dipped the end of the rod in the frying-pan, and said, O fish, are ye remaining faithful to your covenant ? At the sight of this, the cook-maid fainted. The damsel then repeated the same words a second and a third time; after which the fish raised their heads from the frying-pan, and answered, Yes, yes. They then repeated the following verse :— If thou return, we return ; and if thou come, we c
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ings set with precious jewels on her fingers; and in her hand was a rod of Indian cane : and she dipped the end of the rod in the frying-pan, and said, O fish, are ye remaining faithful to your covenant ? At the sight of this, the cook-maid fainted. The damsel then repeated the same words a second and a third time; after which the fish raised their heads from the frying-pan, and answered, Yes, yes. They then repeated the following verse :— If thou return, we return ; and if thou come, we come; and if thou forsake, weverily do the same. And upon this the damsel overturned the frying-pan, and departed bvthe way she had entered, and the wall of the kitchen closed up cook-maid then arose, and beheld the four fish burnt like charcoal;and she exclaimed, In his first encounter his staff broke !—and as shesat reproaching herself, she beheld the Wezeer standing at her head;and he said to her, Bring the fish to the Sultan :—and she wept, andinformed him of what had The Wezeer was astonished at her words, and exclaimed, This isindeed a wonderful event;—and he sent for the fisherman, and whenhe was brought, he said to him, 0 fisherman, thou must bring to usfour fish like those which thou broughtest before. The fishermanaccordingly went forth to the lake, and threw his net, and when hehad drawn it in he found in it four fish as before; and he tookthem to the Wezeer, who went with them to the maid, and said toher, Rise, and fry them in my presence, that I may witness thisoccurrence. The maid, therefore, prepared the fish, and put them inthe frying-pan, and they had remained but a little while, when thewall clove asunder, and the damsel appeared, clad as before,.andholding the rod ; and she dipped the end of the rod in the frying-pan,and said, O fish, 0 fish, are ye remaining faithful to your old covenant ?Upon which they raised their heads, an
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