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The Dove-Girl and the Prince
There was once a Persian Prince of noble birth who lost all his money: so he left his country and came to India, bringing with him his wife and three children.
"It will not", he said, "be so hard to be poor in a strange country."
He travelled with a great many other people, all coming through the snow mountains and passes, and wild bleak places of Afghanistan. The women rode on camels, slung in cages on either side of the driver; and most of their luggage also was carried in this way. The men walked, and the journey took a weary long time for man and beast. The travellers halted to
cook their food, and they halted again to sleep by great watch-fires, till the
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