Tale

 1 Labam |       gave it to her son. "My child," she said to him, "when
 2 Labam |     very glad too.   "Yes, my child," she said; "Khuda must
 3 Raja  |    many a shrine, had never a child to gladden her eyes. After
 4 Raja  | begging to her gate, what the child's fate would be, and the
 5 Raja  |     and said, "Oh, Queen! the child will be a boy, and he will
 6 Raja  |       must do; as soon as the child is born you must send him
 7 Raja  |       the world.~So there the child lived, playing with his
 8 Raja  |    done no evil. Give me this child to wife; and if you will
 9 Boy   | already four Queens he had no child. He went, therefore, to
10 Boy   |       when you will have your child. Suppose you fell ill whilst
11 Boy   |     it is the custom before a child is born to bind its mother'
12 Boy   |     Now you must not let this child make the least sound for
13 Boy   |     The nurse took the little child and put him into a box,
14 Boy   |     King say when he finds no child?" But she could do nothing.
15 Boy   |   into the hole, although the child in it was still alive. The
16 Boy   |       pleases Khuda that this child should live, I will not
17 Boy   |    dead." Then he brought the child out of his stomach and rejoiced
18 Boy   |       There he brought up the child out of his stomach (the
19 Boy   |       out of his stomach (the child was now a year old); and
20 Boy   |      and the beautiful little child, so he ran to the four Queens
21 Boy   |     the King's dog there is a child! the loveliest child! He
22 Boy   |     is a child! the loveliest child! He has a moon on his forehead
23 Boy   |      star on his chin. Such a child has never been seen!" At
24 Boy   |       what will become of the child if I am killed? He will
25 Boy   |    never saw such a beautiful child in this country," she said. "
26 Boy   |      the jungle and shot.~The child now lived in Suri's stomach;
27 Boy   |       do not know whether the child is alive or dead. But I
28 Boy   |      plain and brought up the child. He played and ran about
29 Boy   |   returned to her stable. The child was now three years old.~
30 Boy   |    and had seen the wonderful child and all she did to it. So
31 Boy   |      star on his chin. Such a child has never been seen before!"~
32 Boy   |   What shall I do to save the child?" When it was midnight,
33 Boy   |      Then Suri brought up the child, and the horse was delighted
34 Boy   |     able to ride me, but this child shall ride me." Then he
35 Boy   |  thought, "I will see if this child is alive or dead." So he
36 Boy   |      was very glad to see the child, who was now four years
37 Boy   |      the wonderful, beautiful child that lived inside the King'
38 Boy   |  orders. So he brought up the child and said to him, "Go into
39 Boy   |   said; "but as I never had a child, you cannot be my son." "
40 StNote|      bibliographised by Prof. Child, Eng. and Scotch' Ballads,