Addressing, then, the stranger, he said, "Give me your apple."

The other son-in-law replied: "I am not of this country. I will not give

you my fruit."

"Give it to me to look at," said the King. The young man gave it to him,

saying, "Take a mirror in your right hand and the apple in your left hand."

The King put the apple to his nose, and, looking at his beard, saw that it

became black. His teeth became white. He grew young again. "You are my

son," he said to the young man. And he made a proclamation to his subjects,

"When I am dead he shall succeed me on the throne." His son-in-law stayed

some time with him, and after the death of the King he reigned in his place

and did not marry the other daughters of the King to his companions.

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