The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34 · page 21 2101“He is talking nonsense again.102How can the poor man have got such notions into his head?”103With these words the king took Labakan’s arm to support him down the hill.104They both mounted richly caparisoned horses and rode across the plain at the head of their followers.105The unlucky prince was tied hand and foot, and fastened on a dromedary, a guard riding on either side and keeping a sharp look-out on him.106The old king was Sached, Sultan of the Wachabites.107For many years he had had no children, but at length the son he had so long wished for was born.108But the sooth-sayers and magicians whom he consulted as to the child’s future all said that until he was twenty-two years old he stood in danger of being injured by an enemy.109So, to make all safe, the sultan had confided the prince to his trusty friend Elfi Bey, and deprived himself of the happiness of seeing him for twenty-two years.110All this the sultan told Labakan, and was much pleased by his appearance and dignified manner.1 2← previousThe Crimson Fairy Book, part 33next →The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35↑ back to The Crimson Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/page/2/