They looked at it and went away.
"What shall we do?" said the King.
"Let us make a great trap of the size of the entrance to the city, at the
southern gate. At the northern gate we will place a forty-mule load of
yellow sulphur. We will set it on fire, and then escape and see what will
happen."
"Your advice is good," said the King.
They returned to the city of the Jews, ordered the smiths to make a big
trap and commanded the citizens to furnish the sulphur. When all was ready,
they loaded the mules, went to the monster's city, set the trap at the
southern gate, and at the northern they placed the sulphur, which they set
on fire, and then fled. The monster came out by the southern gate. Half of
his body was caught in the trap that the two men had set. He was cut in
two, filling the river with blood. The King and the Arab entered the city
and found a considerable treasure, which they removed in eighty loads to
the city of the Jews. When they had got back to the palace the King said to
his companion: "Be my caliph. My fortune and thine shall be the same.
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