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 circumstances which have befallen me that I have not yet recovered from my amazement and alarm.” She then related her surprising adventures, which the sultaness heard very patiently, but could scarcely believe. ‘‘You did well, child,” said she, “not to speak of this to your father: take care not to mention it to anybody; for you will certainly be thought mad if you talk in this manner.” ‘‘Madam,” replied the princess, “I can assure you I am in my right senses; ask my husband and he will tell you the same circumstances.” ‘‘I will,” said the sultaness; “but if he should talk in the same manner, I shall not be better persuaded of the truth. Come, rise, and throw off this idle fancy; it will be strange if all the feasts and rejoicings in the kingdom should be interrupted by such a vision. Do not you hear the trumpets of congratulation, and concerts of the finest music? Cannot these inspire you with joy and make you forget the fancies of a dream?” At the same time the sultaness called the princess’s women, and after she had seen her get up, went to the sultan’s apartment, told him that her daughter had got some odd notions in her head, but that there was nothing in them but idle phantasy.

She then sent for the vizier’s son, to know of him something of what the princess had told her; but he, thinking himself highly honoured to be allied to the sultan, and not willing to lose the princess, denied what had happened. “That is enough,” answered the sultaness; “I ask no more. I see you are wiser than my daughter.”

The rejoicings lasted all that day in the palace, and the sultaness, who never left the princess, forgot nothing to divert her, and induce her to take part in the various diversions and shows; but she was so struck with the idea of what had happened to her in the night, that it was easy to see her thoughts were entirely taken up with it. Neither was the grand vizier’s son in less tribu-