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title: The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34 — The Crimson Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/101/) — “He is talking nonsense again.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/102/) — How can the poor man have got such notions into his head?”
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/103/) — With these words the king took Labakan’s arm to support him down the hill.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/104/) — They both mounted richly caparisoned horses and rode across the plain at the head of their followers.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/105/) — The unlucky prince was tied hand and foot, and fastened on a dromedary, a guard riding on either side and keeping a sharp look-out on him.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/106/) — The old king was Sached, Sultan of the Wachabites.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/107/) — For many years he had had no children, but at length the son he had so long wished for was born.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/108/) — But the sooth-sayers and magicians whom he consulted as to the child’s future all said that until he was twenty-two years old he stood in danger of being injured by an enemy.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/109/) — So, to make all safe, the sultan had confided the prince to his trusty friend Elfi Bey, and deprived himself of the happiness of seeing him for twenty-two years.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/110/) — All this the sultan told Labakan, and was much pleased by his appearance and dignified manner.

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