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# Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/101/) — And Queen Lona answered through her tears:
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/102/) — "Yea! mother am I, though I weep, So hold this word sure,-- Go, reign king of all men, but keep Thy heart good and pure!"
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/103/) — So Raja Rasalu was comforted, and began to make ready for fortune.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/104/) — He took with him his horse Bhaunr and his parrot, both of whom had lived with him since he was born.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/105/) — So they made a goodly company, and Queen Lona, when she saw them going, watched them from her window till she saw nothing but a cloud of dust on the horizon; then she bowed her head on her hands and wept, saying:
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/106/) — "Oh! son who ne'er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise, Dim the sunlight and darken the day; For the mother whose son is away Is as dust!"
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/107/) — Rasalu had started off to play chaupur with King Sarkap.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/108/) — And as he journeyed there came a fierce storm of thunder and lightning, so that he sought shelter, and found none save an old graveyard, where a headless corpse lay upon the ground.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/109/) — So lonesome was it that even the corpse seemed company, and Rasalu, sitting down beside it, said:
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/110/) — "There is no one here, nor far nor near, Save this breathless corpse so cold and grim; Would God he might come to life again, 'Twould be less lonely to talk to him."
- [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/111/) — And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Raja Rasalu.
- [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/112/) — And he, nothing astonished, said to it:
- [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/113/) — "The storm beats fierce and loud, The clouds rise thick in the west; What ails thy grave and shroud, Oh corpse! that thou canst not rest?"

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