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Old 11-27-2004, 02:23 AM  
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"Oh, so you don't think so?," said the King of Samarkand. "Well, I'll tell you what. Tomorrow morning, prepare your royal cavalry to go out just as before. However, send one man out disguised as you and another man out disguised as me. Meanwhile, we will stay behind and watch secretly from the royal window. We shall see what we shall see."

The next morning, the royal cavalry went out just as always before. However, there was one man disguised as the King of Samarkand and another man disguised as the King of Bukhara. Meanwhile, the two actual kings stayed behind secretly in the royal bed chamber and watched out the window.

Sure enough, almost as soon as the royal cavalry had gone out for the hunt, the king's favorite wife came out into the middle of the courtyard and called out, "Oh, Saeed. Come to me. I long for you."

With that, Saeed came out and did again what he had done the previous day. Then, the 40 other wives and concubines of the King of Bukhara all came out into the courtyard, called out to 40 slaves, lay down, and they did again just as they had done the day before.

The King of Bukhara was amazed and astonished at this. He could not believe it. So, naturally, he gave the order to his guards to cut off the heads of all of his wives and concubines, along with the heads of all of the slaves who had served them. Then, after he saw that his order had been carried out, the King of Bukhara said to his brother, "Oh! Such great tragedy has befallen both of us. What could be more terrible than the fate which you and I have suffered? Come, now, let us take a long journey alone together and think about the true meaning of life."

With that, the two kings mounted their horses and rode off on a long journey.

After many, many days, the two kings came to the shore of the Caspian Sea. The two kings were very tired, so they lay down under a tree by the sea. They fell asleep.

While the two kings were sleeping, a great, giant genie rose out of the Caspian Sea. The genie carried a beautiful golden box on top of his head. Fortunately, the two kings woke up just in time and quickly climbed up into the branches of the tree. They were able to hide themselves, so that the great genie could not see them.
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