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The Fairy King granted his request: and for his going, made all such arrange- 
ments as are befitting to royalty. So the prince set out for his own kingdom. First 
of all, he visited the python: and there he moved Faughing-Flower to laugh, and 
from her mouth fell flowers, so that the insects quitted the great serpent’s nostrils, 
and thus relieved him. 
Then the prince again took the road, till he arrived in the kingdom of his father. 
His father was overjoyed, and gave orders for the clarions to be sounded. 
* . My story is done, * 
* So off home I run. * 
X. The Story of Brother Nim Kuni. 
There was once a King who had seven wives, but neither a son nor a daughter. 
He was always unhappy. One day, from excess of grief, he was lying upon his 
couch. A Faqir came begging for alms, and the King gave to him. 
“ O King,” said the Faqir, “may I be your sacrifice! What is it that grieves 
you ? ” 
“I am sad,” replied the monarch, “because, although I have seven wives, I 
have no son.” 
“ Follow me,” said the Faqir, and he went forth from the city. A great tree 
was there, and with his staff the Faqir brought down seven leaves. These he gave 
to the King, and said, “ Take these, and give to each of your wives a leaf.” 
So when the King again reached his home, he did so. A mouse came, how- 
ever, and ate half of one of the leaves. 
Some time after each of the King’s seven wives bore to him a son. But one of 
these was ‘ Nim Kuni.’ — Of the double members of the body he had but half his 
proper allowance. He was the son of the woman of whose leaf the mouse had 
eaten half. 
As years passed, the sons gradually grew up. . . and the King procured 
a cat for Nim Kuni, for him to ride upon. To the six other sons, the monarch gave 
lances for tent-pegging, — to Nim Kuni he gave a clothes-prop. Then they used to 
tilt. Not one of the others could transfix the peg, but Nim Kuni coming along at 
it, galloped underneath their horses, and carried it off. 
Now the six in question began to dislike Nim Kuni. They used to say to him : 
Do not come about with us,” — but he used to accompany them by stealth, riding 
underneath their horses. 
One day they went out to hunt, telling him not to follow them; but Nim Kuni 
did so. 
Now Nim Kuni was very clever, and exceedingly strong in body. The six 
others, as they went along, became hungry ; and commenced to be sorry, saying, 
' ‘ If Brother Nim Kuni were here, from this garden hard by he would obtain us 
some melons.” 
