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bason, without a drop running over.
The news of these wonders was presently spread abroad in that

neighbourhood; and as the doors of the house, and those of the
garden, were shut to nobody, great bands of people came to
admire them.
Some days after that, the princes Bahman and Perviz having
recovered themselves of the fatigue of their journey, began to
renew their former way of living; and as their greatest
diversion was hunting, they mounted their horses, and went,

not in their park, but two or three leagues from their own
house; but as it happened that they had made choice of the same
spot of ground where the sultan of Persia was then hunting,
when they perceived it, they left off their chace, and retired, to
avoid meeting him; but, for all their care and caution, they
chanced to chop upon him in so strait and narrow a way that
they could not turn back without being seen. In their surprise,
they had only time to prostrate themselves before the sultan,
without lifting up their heads to look at him. The sultan, who

saw they were well mounted and dressed, had the curiosity to
see their faces; therefore stopped, and commanded them to
rise. The princes, when they rose up, stood before the sultan
with so easy an air, and, at the same time, with so great
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