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 words: "My brother, we shall come presently to a large garden, and in the fountain thereof are the three. When I say to thee: 'Shut thine eye, open thine eye!' lay hold of what thou shalt see."

They went on a little way further till they came to the garden, and the moment the devil saw the fountain he said to the King's son: "Shut thine eye and open thine eye!" He did so, and saw the three Oranges bobbing up and down on the surface of the water where it came bubbling out of the spring, and he snatched up one of them and popped it in his pocket. Again the devil called to him: "Open thine eye and shut thine eye!" He did so, and snatched up the second orange, and so with the third also in the same way. "Now take care," said the devil, "that thou dost not cut open these oranges in any place where there is no water, or it will go ill with thee." The King's son promised, and so they parted, one went to the right, and the other to the left.

The King's son went on, and on, and on. He went a long way, and he went a short way, he went across mountains and through valleys. At last he came to a sandy desert, and there he bethought him of the oranges, and drawing one out, he cut it open. Scarcely had he cut into it when a damsel, lovely as a Peri, popped out of it before him; the moon when it is fourteen days old is not more dazzling. "For