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Title: The Oriental Story Book
A Collection of Tales

Author: Wilhelm Hauff

Illustrator: J. W. Orr

Translator: G. P. Quackenbos

Release Date: February 13, 2008 [EBook #24593]

Language: English

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THE
ORIENTAL
STORY BOOK.

A COLLECTION OF TALES.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF
WILHELM HAUFF,

BY G. P. QUACKENBOS.

ILLUSTRATED BY J. W. ORR.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
346 & 348 BROADWAY.
1855.

[Illustration]

OF NEW ORLEANS

IN REMEMBRANCE OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP,

AND MANY HAPPY HOURS SPENT WITH HIM OVER THE

GERMAN CLASSICS,

THIS LITTLE VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

THE CARAVAN.

INTRODUCTION.

In a beautiful distant kingdom, of which there is a saying, that the
sun on its everlasting green gardens never goes down, ruled, from the
beginning of time even to the present day, Queen Phantasie. With full
hands, she used to distribute for many hundred years, the abundance of
her blessings among her subjects, and was beloved and respected by all
who knew her. The heart of the Queen, however, was too great to allow
her to stop at her own land with her charities; she herself, in the
royal attire of her everlasting youth and beauty, descended upon the
earth; for she had heard that there men lived, who passed their lives
in sorrowful seriousness, in the midst of care and toil. Unto these
she had sent the finest gifts out of her kingdom, and ever since the
beauteous Queen came through the fields of earth, men were merry at
their labor, and happy in their seriousness.

Her children, moreover, not less fair and lovely than their royal
mother, she had sent forth to bring happiness to men. One day
Maerchen[A], the eldest daughter of the Queen, came back in haste from
the earth. The mother observed that Maerchen