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Title: The violet fairy book
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
Subjects: Folklore Fairy tales
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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Snakes, was the reply, andthis is my palace. And will you tell me who you are,and where you come from? My name is Hassebu, but whence I come I knownot, nor whither I go. Then stay for a little with me, said the king, and hebade his soldiers bring water from the spring and fruitsfrom the forest, and to set them before the guest. For some days Hassebu rested and feasted in thepalace of the King of the Snakes, and then he began tolong for his mother and his own country. So he said to the King of the Snakes, Send me home, I pray. But the King of the Snakes answered, When you gohome, you will do me evil! I will do you no evil, replied Hassebu; send mehome, I pray. But the king said, I know it. If I send you home,you will come back, and kill me. I dare not do it.But Hassebu begged so hard that at last the kingsaid, Swear that when you get home you will not go to THE STORY OF HASSEBU 267 bathe where many people are gathered. And Hassebuswore, and the king ordered his soldiers to take Hassebu
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in sight of his native city. Then he went straight to hismothers house, and the heart of his mother was glad.Now the Sultan of the city was very ill, and all the 268 THE STORY OF HASSEBU wise men said that the only thing to cure him was theflesh of the King of the Snakes, and that the only manwho could get it was a man with a strange mark on hischest. So the Vizir had set people to watch at the publicbaths, to see if such a man came there. For three days Hassebu remembered his promise to the King of the Snakes, and did not go near the baths;then came a morning so hot he could hardly breathe, andhe forgot all about it. The moment he had slipped off his robe he was takenbefore the Vizir, who said to him, k Lead us to the placewhere the King of the Snakes lives. I do not know it! answered he, but the Vizir didnot believe him, and had him bound and beaten till hisback was all torn. Then Hassebu cried, Loose me, that I may takeyou. They went together a long, long way, till they reachedthe p

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