He gave her the wings of a bird, and she flew up
in the sky.
At dawn she alighted in a great city, and met a man upon the roadside. She
said: "By the face of God, give me your raiment and I'll give thee mine."
"Take it, and may God honor you," he said. Then she was handsome. This city
had no king. The members of the council said:
"This creature is handsome; we'll make him our king." The cannon spoke in
his honor and the drums beat.
When she flew up into the sky, the vezir said to the guards: "You will be
my witnesses that she has gone to the sky, so that when I shall see the
King he cannot say, 'Where is she?'" But when the vezir told this story,
the King said:
"I shall go to seek my wife. Thou hast lied. Thou shalt accompany me." They
set out, and went from village to village. They inquired, and said: "Has a
woman been found here recently? We have lost her." And the village people
said, "We have not found her." They went then to another village and
inquired. At this village the Sultan's wife recognized them, called her
servant, and said to him, "Go, bring to me this man.
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