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When the pigeon heard these verses, it awoke from its brooding and cooed and warbled and trilled, till it all but spoke; and the tongue of the case interpreted for it and recited the following verses:

Then Uns el Wujoud turned to his friend, the Ispahani and said to him, ‘What palace is this? Who built it and who abideth in it?’ Quoth the eunuch, ‘The Vizier of King Shamikh built it for his daughter, fearing for