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The Book of Wonder Voyages
Then they dismounted, and Barham opened a bag, and took a handmill and some wheat, ground the grain, and kneaded three round cakes. Then he took out a big skin, and said to Hasan: "Lie down on this skin and
THE PERSIAN SEWS UP HASAN
I will sew thee up therein. But the rukhs will come to thee and carry thee up to the top of the mountain. Take this knife with thee, and when the birds have done flying and have set thee down, slit the skin open and come forth. Then the birds will take fright at thee and fly away; and thou shalt look down from the top of the mountain and speak to me and do what I bid thee."
