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The Dove-Girl
women in the Caravan for a nurse.
And the baby's mother came forward and said: "Please let me be nurse." So the baby had its own mother after all to care for it.
Now the great man from Akbar's Court was so kind that the woman told him all her story, and he asked to see her husband and her sons, and sent them all to the Emperor himself for protection. So it came to pass that the man from Persia got work and honour at the Emperor's Court.
And the baby born by the roadside grew very beautiful, and was called Mihr-un-Nisa, which means "the Sun of Womankind". She lived near the Palace, and would go with the women into the Palace gardens, whenever the great Fairs took place, where the zenana women sold their lovely work and embroideries.
