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marry the Sultan’s baker, to eat the bread that they
call the Sultan’s bread, etc. The second sister said: Me, I
would like to be the wife of the Sultan’s head cook and
eat his wonderful sauces.The youngest of the three, who
was astoundingly beautiful and very full of spirit, said:
As for me, I would like to be the bride of the Sultan; I
would bear him a prince with golden hair on one side
and silver on the other, whose tears would be pearls,
and at his every smile a rosebud would blossom from his
lips. The sultan Khosrou Schah ordered his Grand Visier
to note down carefully which house thet was and to
bring him the three sisters on the following day. The
Grand Visier brought them to the Palace; the three
sisters, upun being interrogated, apologised profusely.
They repeated the same things as before.
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