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Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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s, for he wasbut a wandering minstrel from the North, withnaught but a lively wit and clever tongue betweenhimself and want. Truly he was poor as thoughhe carried a begging bowl and there were seventyholes therein. As was the wont of his caste, Mahesh Da wentmuch about the bazaars where goods are soldand talk is free, and in the caravansaries wheretravelers rest with their camels, horses, elephantsand bullocks; and also went he among the groomsand servants of the great lords, ever pleasant of AKBAR AND BIRBAL 121 mien, guarded of speech, and quick of ear and gift, in sooth that a king lacks may a beggar eye, and thus did he gain news of great matters bring? whereof it seemed well that the king should Him answered Mahesh Da, undaunted: My straightway know. Lord, to Suleiman the Glorious, on whom be Therefore did Mahesh Da clothe himself in peace, came the princes of the earth bearing rich the robes of a fakir, or roving beggar, who may gifts; and likewise came the birds of the air, the
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THE FAT VIRESETTI HAILED THEM, CRYING, WILL YE NOT COME HITHER ANDSHAKE IN OUR PLEASANT PASTIME? (SEE NEXT PAGE.) freely enter hovel or palace, and boldly made beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, his way into the royal court, crying, I bear a with treasures theretofore unknown of man; and gift to the great king! last of all came a lame ant dragging the leg of a Then loud laughed the mighty lords of Hin- locust—and Suleiman the Glorious held not the dustan, and the king laughed too, saying, What gift in scorn. 122 AKBAR AND BIRBAL (Dec, Then Akbar bowed his head, saying gravely:I thank thee for the tale. Now say what is thygift. My gift, answered Mahesh Da, is a talis-man to guard the kings health; it is a writingthat I have made with many prayers; but nonesave the king himself must know the wordsthereof, lest its virtue depart. Nor may I takeaught in return. May the king live forever!So he gave into the kings hand a sealed writingand departed from the palace, while the

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