TALE II.

When the Well-and-wise-walking Khan found that he had missed the end

and object of his journey, he forthwith set out again, without loss of

time, or so much as returning to his Master and Teacher, Nâgârg'una,

but taking only a meal of his cake which never diminished; thus,

with similar toils and fears as the first time, he came again at

last to the cool grove where lay the child-dead, and among them the

Siddhî-kür. And the Siddhî-kür rose up before him, and clambered up

the mango-tree. And when the Well-and-wise-walking Khan had summoned

him with proud sounding words to come down, threatening that otherwise

he would hew down the tree with his axe "White Moon," the Siddhî-kür

came down, rather than that he should destroy the mango-tree. Then

he bound him again in his bag of many colours, in which was place

to stow away an hundred, and bound the mouth thereof with the cord

woven of an hundred threads of different tints, and bore him along

to offer to his Master and Teacher, Nâgârg'una.

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