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 I tell thee, and thus thou shalt make a really beautiful picture-book!”

This I have done; and in this way I might give a new Thousand and One Nights in pictures: but that would be too much; those which I have given have not been selected, but are just as I heard them. A great, genial-hearted painter, a poet, or a musician, may make more of them if he will; that which I present is only a slight outline on paper, and mixed up with my own thoughts, because it was not every night that the moon came; there was now and then a cloud between us.