The Olive Fairy Book. Various

lovely wife?’ ” 170 The Prince has pity on the Gold-headed Fish ” 178 ‘He never could persuade her to say a single word.’ ” 188 The Princess gets her Letter ” 200 ‘I accept your challenge. Mount and follow me. I am Zoulvisia.’ ” 218 The Witch and her Snakes ” 226 The Princess of Arabia released from the Iron Pillar ” 262 The Boy secures the Bracelet ” 280 Blind Rage filled the Heart of the Watcher ” 296 ‘The Seven Veils fell from her’ ” 332

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Love at first sight	2
How the Birds were brought to the Sultan	5
The Swallow brings the Note to Lino	18
Pull as He might, He could not get free	37
‘Is this the Man that You wish to Marry?’	62
The Farmer finds the Queen weeping by the Palanquin	73
The Unlucky Shot	75
Ameer Ali wins the Anklet	78
The Princess saves the White Fox	100
Imani attends to the Crippled Fakir	121
Imani listens to what the Monkeys say	127
Maia carried off by the Cockchafer	135
Maia and the Spiders in the Evening	141
He helped her to jump from the Swallow’s back	142
The Poisoned Nail	159
The Invisible Prince goes with the Ladies	194
The King laughs at the Billygoat	213
Suddenly the Tree rose up again and flew away	240
The Snake Prince visits his Wife	251
The Robber-chief catches the Queen	259
The Hawk flies away with the Lamp	271
The Silent Princess speaks at last	327

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      Once upon a time there lived, in a small cottage among some hills, a woman with her son, and, to her great grief, the young man, though hardly more than twenty years of age, had not as much hair on his head as a baby. But, old as he looked, the youth was very idle, and whatever trade his mother put him to he refused to work, and in a few days always came home again.

      On a fine summer morning he was lying as usual half asleep in the little garden in front of the cottage when the sultan’s daughter came riding by, followed by a number of gaily dressed ladies. The youth lazily raised himself