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be brought to the kings daughter, for
he could cure her disease. They
brought him in; and he laid the plant
upon her and she saw 1t, and it
brought peace to her trouble, and
she was made whole and was in very
truth as BEAUTIFUL as, the day. Then
the king ordered and the drums were
beaten ard he guns fired, and procla-
nation NOS that tho good man had
cured the priucess and that he should
marry he once. So the king gave
him his ghter in marriage, and
there was eat Joy and feasting, and
the king ssYe him the half of his
kingdom TO rule over and all were
happy.
Weeks passed and the king re-
joiced in his son-in-law, and the peo-
pie in their ruler, and most of all the
kings daughter in her. husband. One
day it chanced that the good man
rode in the streets with many fol-
lowers and horses and elephants,
when he easaw the evil man clad in
rags passing through the street. He
stopped his train, and, dismounting,
ran to the evil man and embraced
him and kissed him. He threw robe
upon him and set him upon an ele-
phant and brought him to his own
palace. Here he entertained him and
made much OF him and praised him,
saying that he owed all his good for
tune to him.
The evil mans heart was filled with
jealousy. He went before the king
and spoke to him, saying, "Do you
know what sort of man you have for
a son-inrlaw, you who are so proud?
I have known him from a child, and
he is the son Of a scavenger, one of
the very pariahs whose touch is pol
luton. The king rose in fury and
cast his son-in-law into prison, and
the evil man laughed and went his
way.
When the kings daughter begged
her husbands life, and he was
dragged before the king for judg-
ment, the good man said: "Have /
done evil to you or good that you
should believe evil of me? I am no
pariah; but come of royal blood.
I was poor and outcast, but count
my fathers for q thousand years, and
am the child of the sun and the moon
even as you are yourself, and as /
told you before. Thus shall you know !,
that "a am no mean man, give me
camelssandxI will go fetch my treas
nre. NJ
The king gave him ,camels and
men, and he went and dug beneath !
the iwithered oak tree near stone of
which the lion had spoken. There he
found the treasure of seven kings,
gold and silver and jewels without:
number. He loaded up the camels,
and sent for more and more again,
andiyet again, till the city was filled
with wonder, and the kings treasure
houses oVerflowed. The king believed
his word and knew that he was no
pariah's son, and took him back to
his palace and begged his forgiveness.
The good man now ruled the kingdom
and did justice, and all men loved
him.
: Again 1t CHANGED that he rode in
the city, and the evil man came by,
returned to. see the effects Of his evil.
Again the good man ran to him and
kissed him, and brought him to his
palace, and treated him with honor,
naming him the source of all his good
fortune. Shall not the good do good,
and the evil do evil, for so God has
appointed, and who shall gainsay?
The evil man. full of wonder, asked
him how all had befallen him, and
the good man told him all from the
beginning, and hid nothing from him.
The heart of the evil man was filled
with jealousy and evil. and he took
counsel how he could destroy his
benefactor. So he went to the dry
well on the edge of the desert, and
climbed down, hoping to hear the
animals talk and to learn new Sc
'crets. When night fell the animals
came back-the lion, the jackal, and
the wolf. Said the lion: 4My treas
ure is gone, and l go hungry. Who
has robbed me?" "My Towering
plant has gone" replied the jackal;
"someone has done this thing, some
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