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A peacock once abode with his mate on the sea-shore in a place that abounded in trees and streams but was infested with lions and all manner other wild beasts and for fear of these latter the two birds were wont to roost by night upon a tree going for ...

There came one day to Khalid ibn Abdallah el Kesri 3 governor of Bassora a company of men dragging a youth of exceeding beauty and lofty bearing whose aspect expressed good breeding and dignity and abundant wit