El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-12

ter by stabbing his enemy. So Ali
Baba married her to his son and he
lived 1oyously upon treasures from
the cave.
OTHER FASCINATING STORIES
OF the Magic Horse of ebony and
ivory. so fashioned that its rider by
pressing divers buttons, could fly
whittier he willed- 1t bore a Persian
prince to a great palace in a metrop-
oils. girt about with greenery- There
he looked into the eyes Of a princess
and they were enraptured- It befell
that they rode away on the Magic
Horse, but before they were wed an
evil man abducted the princess The
disconsoIate prince wandered far and
and again they journeyed through the
air 10 his home. where they were
married with exceeding pomp and
lived happily.
OF a poor fisherman who drew his
net from the sea and found therein
but a brass bottle. He cut open the
top and there streamed forth A cloud
of smoke. II collected, and behold
It was a genie. so huge that his head
was in the clouds. He would have
fisherman insisted that never could
he have come from the bottle The
silly genie squeezed himself inside,
Whereupon the fisherman ciapped on
the genie sWore to serve him faith
fully. This oath It was that led to
the finding of the ensorcelled prince
with legs turned to stone and the
lake wherein swan fish of four colors
that had once been men. After mar
made as other men and the fish were
men and women And the fisherman
was so rewarded that he was the
wealthiest man Of his time.
INSANE FROM SORROW
or prince Camaralzaman and the
princess Badoura, beautiful beyond
compare. and OF how each saw the
other in sleep and was smitten with
great love. But when they awakened
they saw not one another for they
who had carried Badoura out Of China
to the confines Of Persia Grief 50
afflicted both that they sickened and
were insane from sorrow Then
messenger from Badoura journeyed
far over land and sea until he found
Camaralzaman and returned with
him TO China where the lovers were
welded. But while they were tray
cling 10 Camaralzaman's land he wan
dereG away. BaOura dressed herself
in his raiment and passed herself for
a man II befel that she found favor
in the eyes Of a king and was mar
ried to a princess And Camaralza-
man too came to this land and knew
not VIE VINO ucdpeQ uOnOIE uDNI
him. At last she revealed herself and
was known as woman and Camaral-
zaman took also TO wife the princess
whom Badoura had married and they
were happy together
OF a merchant who. awaiting death
at the hands Of a cruel genie. was
Joined by three old men. one leading
z gazelle, another two black hounds
! and the third a mule. Now it is re-
lated that the gazelle and the mule
had been wicked wives transformers
by magic and likewise had the hounds
been evil brothers When the genie
was told these stories OF enchant-
ment he was so diverted that he
spared the merchants life
ABOIT HARIuN ALRASHID.
And Of many tales concerning the
Caliph Haroun Alrashid and his go
ing disguised into the lanes and ba-
zaars OF Bagdad where he CHANGED
upon strange people who told him
strange stories Of magic Once he
supped with three ladies OF dazzling
beauty and with him we're q porter
dszed with the magnificence he saw
and three mendicants. sons Of kings
all blind in the left eye Not know
ing the Caliph they told OF their fan
tastic adventures and sufferings and
he rewarded them And again he en-
countered a beggar who implored
him to strike him, youth who
spurred cruelty q mare upon wh.cn
he rode and a rope maker who had
risen suddenly from poverty to al
f1uence. Their tales too did he hear
and them too did he reward. Nor
should Abon-Hassan. the Wag. be Tor
gotten. whose trickery IN pretending
that he and his wife were dead won
so much gold and 50 many laughs
from the Caiiph And OF like import
is the mad tale Of the humpback who
seemed dead and Of the talkative bar
Der who restored him to life. OF. all
those who had believed themselves
murderers OF the humpback and OF the
amazing tales that they related
So it came to pass that by the end
OF the thousand and one nights,
| Shahriar so delighted in the clever
ness Of Sheherazade that he welded
her again with regal pomp and they
lived happily ever after.-Copyrigh :,
1913. by Post Publishing CO. (The
Boston Post-) Published BY special
arrangement with the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate. All rights reserved
sSteIIa Maris.v by william j. Locke.
as condensed by Miss Mona Osborn,
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