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Rh to appear, so he bought a quantity of elephants, and camels, and horses, and cows, and sheep, and goats, and made a procession, and came to the wedding. Then he went back to heaven, but before he went he said to the Indrasan Rájá, "You must stay here one whole year; then go back to your father and to your kingdom. As long as you put flowers on your ears no danger will come near you." (This was in order that the fairies might know that be was a very great Rájá and not hurt him.) "All right," said the Indrasan Rájá. And God went back to heaven.

So the Indrasan Rájá stayed for a whole year. Then he told the Rájá, the Phúlmattí Rání's father, that he wished to go back to his own kingdom. " All right," said the Rájá, and he wanted to give him horses, and camels, and elephants. But the Indrasan Rájá and the Phúlmattí Rání said they wanted nothing but a tent and a cooly. Well, they set out; but the Indrasan Rájá forgot to put flowers on his ears, and after some days the Indrasan Rájá was very, very tired, so he said, "We will sit down under these big trees and rest awhile. Our baggage will soon be here; it is only a little way behind." So they sat down, and the Rájá said he felt so tired he must sleep. "Very well," said the Rání; "lay your head in my lap and sleep." After awhile a shoemaker's wife came by to get some water from a tank which was close to the spot where the Rájá and Rání were resting. Now, the shoemaker's wife was very black and ugly, and she had only one eye, and she was exceedingly wicked. The Rání was very thirsty and she said to the woman, "Please give me some water, I am so thirsty." "If you want any," said the shoemaker's wife, " come to the tank and get it yourself." "But I cannot," said the Rání, "for the Rájá is sleeping in my lap." At last the poor Rání got so very, very thirsty, she said she must have some water; so laying the Rájá's head very gently on the ground she went to the tank. Then