Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 236
e peace ! responded the king.And what is your sport, O merchants of Ind ? Thus it is, began Viresetti; each of us inturn recounts a marvelous tale, as marvelous atale as may be, and yet ever a new one; andshould any deny the truth of a tale that is told,then is he bound to pay to the teller thereof… … So was it agreed; and wonderful and strange however strange and wonderful, no one deniedwere the tales that were told in that circle; yet, their truth, for fear of the penalty. But when it 124 AKBAR AND BIRBAL IDec, came the turn of the Rajah Birbal he faced thefat Viresetti, saying: Dost thou not…
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