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_Love at first sight_ 2

_How the Birds were brought to the Sultan_ 5

_The Swallow brings the Note to Lino_ 18

_Pull as He might, He could not get free_ 37

'_Is this the Man that You wish to Marry?_' 62

_The Farmer finds the Queen weeping by the Palanquin_ 73

_The Unlucky Shot_ 75

_Ameer Ali wins the Anklet_ 78

_The Princess saves the White Fox_ 100

_Imani attends to the Crippled Fakir_ 121

_Imani listens to what the Monkeys say_ 127

_Maia carried off by the Cockchafer_ 135

_Maia and the Spiders in the Evening_ 141

_He helped her to jump from the Swallow's back_ 142

_The Poisoned Nail_ 159

_The Invisible Prince goes with the Ladies_ 194

_The King laughs at the Billygoat_ 213

_Suddenly the Tree rose up again and flew away_ 240

_The Snake Prince visits his Wife_ 251

_The Robber-chief catches the Queen_ 259

_The Hawk flies away with the Lamp_ 271

_The Silent Princess speaks at last_ 327

_MADSCHUN_

Once upon a time there lived, in a small cottage among some hills, a
woman with her son, and, to her great grief, the young man, though
hardly more than twenty years of age, had not as much hair on his head
as a baby. But, old as he looked, the youth was very idle, and
whatever trade his mother put him to he refused to work, and in a few
days always came home again.

On a fine summer morning he was lying as usual half asleep in the
little garden in front of the cottage when the sultan's daughter came
riding by, followed by a number of gaily dressed ladies. The youth
lazily raised himself on his elbow to look at her, and that one glance
changed his whole nature.

'I will marry her and nobody else,' he thought. And jumping up, he
went to find his mother