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make the experiment; but I would not have you expose yourself
to the danger.
What, replied the princess, not persist in my design! I am sure I
shall succeed, and am resolved to try the experiment; therefore
only want to know which way I must go, which is a favour I
conjure you not to refuse me. The dervise exhorted her again to
consider well what she was going to do; but finding her
resolute, he took out a bowl, and presenting it to her, said,Take
this bowl, and when you have mounted your horse again, throw
it before you, and follow it till it stops at the bottom of the
mountain, and there light off your horse: you know the rest;
but be sure to remember what I have told you. ____
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