--- title: The Brown Fairy Book, part 2 — The Brown Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: King Quimus now sent for his daughter and for her mother, Gulrukh,[6] and talked to them. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / The Brown Fairy Book, part 2 # The Brown Fairy Book, part 2 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/101/) — If you had a hundred lives you would not bring one out safe from this journey.” - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/102/) — But his words had no effect on the prince’s resolve. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/103/) — “What object have you,” the old man asked, “in thus consuming your life?” - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/104/) — “I have an important piece of business to do, and only this journey makes it possible. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/105/) — I must go; I pray you, ill God’s name, tell me the way.” - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/106/) — When the saint saw that the prince was not to be moved, he said: “Learn and know, O youth! that Waq of Qaf is in the Caucasus and is a dependency of it. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/107/) — In it there are jins, demons, and peris. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/108/) — You must go on along this road till it forks into three; take neither the right hand nor the left, but the middle path. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/109/) — Follow this for a day and a night. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/110/) — Then you will come to a column on which is a marble slab inscribed with Cufic characters. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/111/) — Do what is written there; beware of disobedience.” - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/112/) — Then he gave his good wishes for the journey and his blessing, and the prince kissed his feet, said good-bye, and, with thanks to the Causer of Causes, took the road. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/113/) — After a day and a night he saw the column rise in silent beauty to the heavens. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/114/) — Everything was as the wise old man had said it would be, and the prince, who was skilled in all tongues, read the following Cufic inscription: “O travellers! be it known to you that this column has been set up with its tablet to give true directions about these roads. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/115/) — If a man would pass his life in ease and pleasantness, let him take the right-hand path. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/116/) — If he take the left, he will have some trouble, but he will reach his goal without much delay. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/117/) — Woe to him who chooses the middle path! if he had a thousand lives he would not save one; it is very hazardous; it leads to the Caucasus, and is an endless road. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/118/) — Beware of it!” - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/119/) — The prince read and bared his head and lifted his hands in supplication to Him who has no needs, and prayed, “O Friend of the traveller! - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/120/) — I, Thy servant, come to Thee for succour. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/121/) — My purpose lies in the land of Qaf and my road is full of peril. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/122/) — Lead me by it.” - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/123/) — Then he took a handful of earth and cast it on his collar, and said: “O earth! be thou my grave; and O vest! tee thou my winding-sheet!” - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/124/) — Then he took the middle road and went along it, day after day, with many a silent prayer, till he saw trees rise from the weary waste of sand. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/125/) — They grew in a garden, and he went up to the gate and found it a slab of beautifully worked marble, and that near it there lay sleeping, with his head on a stone, a negro whose face was so black that it made darkness round him. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/126/) — His upper lip, arched like an eyebrow, curved upwards to his nostrils and his lower hung down like a camel’s. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/127/) — Four millstones formed his shield, and on a box-tree close by hung his giant sword. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/128/) — His loin-cloth was fashioned of twelve skins of beasts, and was bound round his waist by a chain of which each link was as big as an elephant’s thigh. 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