The King replied, "I will give a gold ring."

Then the girl rubbed the oil [on the wound], and after she drew out

the finger-nail the foot became well. After that the King gave the

girl the gold ring. The girl, taking it, came home.

The King, taking a sword, on the following day came on the back of

the tusk elephant to the house in which is the girl. The girl was

asleep. Then the King descended from the tusk elephant, and taking

the sword went to the place where the girl was. "Get up, thou,"

he said. The girl arose. Then the King prepared to cut her neck.

The girl, having made obeisance, said, "Don't cut me with the sword;

it was I who cured His foot."

"How didst thou cure it?" he said.

"I went to the city in which He was, and having rubbed fat [on the

wound] and drawn out the finger-nail, came back," the girl said.

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