ple who flocked
from all parts at the first news of what was passing, and immediately
spread the joyful intelligence through the city.

Next morning early the emperor and queen, whose mournful humiliating
dress was changed for magnificent robes, went with all their court to
the house built by the intendant of the gardens, where the emperor
presented the Princes Bahman and Perviz, and the Princess Periezade to
their enraptured mother. "These, much injured wife," said he, "are the
two princes your sons, and the princess your daughter; embrace them with
the same tenderness I have done, since they are worthy both of me and
you." The tears flowed plentifully down their cheeks at these tender
embraces, especially the queen's, from the comfort and joy of having two
such princes for her sons, and such a princess for her daughter, on
whose account she had so long endured the severest afflictions.

The two princes and the princess had prepared a magnificent repast for
the emperor and queen and their court. As soon as that was over, the
emperor led the queen into the garden, and shewed her the Harmonious
Tree and the beautiful effect of the Golden Fountain. She had seen the
Bird in his cage, and the emperor had spared no panegyric in his praise
during the repast.

When there was nothing to detain the emperor any longer, he took horse,
and with the Princes Bahman and Perviz on his right hand, and the queen
consort and the princess at his left, preceded and followed by all the
officers of his court, according to their rank, returned to his capital.
Crowds of people came out to meet them, and with acclamations of joy
ushered them into the city, where all eyes were fixed not only upon the
queen, and her royal children, but also upon the Bird, which the
princess carried before her in his cage, admiring his sweet notes, which
had drawn all the other birds about him, and followed him flying from
tree to tree in the country, and from one house top to another in the
city. The Princes Bahman and Perviz and the Princess Periezade were at
length brought to the palace with pomp, and nothing was to be seen or
heard all that night but illuminations and rejoicings both in the palace
and in the utmost parts of the city, which lasted many days, and were
continued throughout the empire of Persia, as intelligence of the joyful
event reached the several provinces.

THE STORY OF THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE

There was once an aged fisherman