--- title: The Brown Fairy Book, part 4 — The Brown Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Having stored these things in the prince’s memory, she said: “You will see everything happen just as I have said.” --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/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 4 # The Brown Fairy Book, part 4 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/101/) — By God’s grace you have removed my children’s powerful foe. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/102/) — I regard you as a child of my own. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/103/) — Stay with me; I will give you everything you desire, and I will establish a city here for you, and will furnish it with every requisite; I will give you the land of the Caucasus, and will make its princes subject to you. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/104/) — Give up the journey to Waq, it is full of risk, and the jins there will certainly kill you.” - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/105/) — But nothing could move the prince, and seeing this the bird went on: “Well, so be it! - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/106/) — When you wish to set forth you must go into the plain and take seven head of deer, and must make water-tight bags of their hides and keep their flesh in seven portions. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/107/) — Seven seas lie on our way—I will carry you over them; but if I have not food and drink we shall fall into the sea and be drowned. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/108/) — When I ask for it you must put food and water into my mouth. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/109/) — So we shall make the journey safely.” - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/110/) — The prince did all as he was told, then they took flight; they crossed the seven seas, and at each one the prince fed the Simurgh When they alighted on the shore of the last sea, it said: “O my son! there lies your road; follow it to the city. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/111/) — Take thee three feathers of mine, and, if you are in a difficulty, burn one and I will be with you in the twinkling of an eye.” - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/112/) — The prince walked on in solitude till he reached the city. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/113/) — He went in and wandered about through all quarters, and through bazaars and lanes and squares, in the least knowing from whom he could ask information about the riddle of Mihr-afruz. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/114/) — He spent seven days thinking it over in silence. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/115/) — From the first day of his coming he had made friends with a young cloth-merchant, and a great liking had sprung up between them. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/116/) — One day he said abruptly to his companion: “O dear friend! - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/117/) — I wish you would tell me what the rose did to the cypress, and what the sense of the riddle is.” - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/118/) — The merchant started, and exclaimed: “If there were not brotherly affection between us, I would cut off your head for asking me this!” - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/119/) — “If you meant to kill me,” retorted the prince, “you would still have first to tell me what I want to know.” - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/120/) — When the merchant saw that the prince was in deadly earnest, he said: “If you wish to hear the truth of the matter you must wait upon our king. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/121/) — There is no other way; no one else will tell you. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/122/) — I have a well-wisher at the Court, named Farrukh-fal,\[12\] and will introduce you to him.” - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/123/) — “That would be excellent,” cried the prince. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/4/124/) — A meeting was arranged between Farrukhfal and Almas, and then the amir took him to the king’s presence and introduced him as a stranger and traveller who had come from afar to sit in the shadow of King Sinaubar. 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