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the flowing goblet passing and repassing before her Anu Shah was inflamed with love at her aspect What a wonderfully charming place said he must be the residence of these Perizadis Their charms would render any place quite delightful. I wonder if it possible for a person to form an acquaintance with them “Who fails of that fares the better said Danish Bait for they never fail some way or other to ruin the person that has any intercourse with them They generally conclude by changing him into some animal, and he is lucky man that ever recovers his own form” “Amusing enough, to be sure said the King but the question is how to get acquainted with them Said another vizir who owed a sort of grudge to Danish Bait Of all the men in the world, nobody is so well acquainted with them as his own nephew who has visited them a hundred times and could tell you all about them had they not out of pure good will and friendship lately changed him into an ass “Oh send for him, by all means said the Shah I long to hear what account he gives of them

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