'O head of the Afrits,' said the fisherman, 'I did thee a kindness, and thou repayest me with evil: indeed the proverb lieth not that saith:"We did them good, and they the contrary returned: And this, upon my life, is what the wicked do! Who helps those, that deserve it not, shall be repaid as the hyaena paid the man that helped her through."'
'Make no more words about it,' said the Afrit; 'thou must die.'
Continued next week. Tomorrow's installment from The Illiad by Homer.
From the Arab world: these stories date back to the Middle Ages.
Picture: Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryār.
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it is a good book as for adults as children
ReplyDeleteI think that the best children books are those written with the care one usually associates with adult writing.
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