Once upon a time there was a Sultan, and he had one son, a very handsome
youth, called Hasani.
Every day at noon the Sultan and his son used to go to the mosque to
pray. After they had gone the Sultan's wife used to sort out the seeds
of every kind of grain in the Sultan's store. Those that needed drying
she gave to a slave, called Kibaraka, to put out in the sun to dry.
One day, after the Sultan and his son had gone to prayer, she called to
the slave, "Kibaraka, take these seeds and put them out in the sun."
Kibaraka took the grain and spread it out to dry, each kind by itself.
Suddenly a wondrously fine bird came and sat down by the grain and
called out--
"Kibaraka! Kibaraka!"
[Illustration: The bird]