|
This continued for another night, and then another night and then another night. Every night, Sheherazade finished the story she had started the previous night. Then, every night, Sheherazade started a new and wonderful story. Every night, the king was so anxious to hear the end of the story that he decided to allow Sheherazade to live just one more night.
This continued on and on for nearly three years, for exactly 1001 nights. Finally, after 1001 Arabian nights had passed, the old king died.
And what were those wonderful stories which Sheherazade told to her sister? Why, we have them all today because, every night, when her sister went home to her father's house, she wrote down the story which had been told to her that night by Sheherazade. Since then, these stories have all been told and retold and copied into books and published and translated into every language of the world, so that every boy and girl can read them today.
And what were those 1001 stories which were first told by Sheherazade? Why, these are all the great stories of Arabia. There is "Aladdin and His Lamp" and "Sinbad the Sailor" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and so many other great stories, which every boy and girl in the world reads today. These are the 1001 stories first told on those 1001 Arabian nights by the greatest story teller of them all: Sheherazade.
__________________
---'-,-{@ Sassy Grrrl @}-'-,---
|