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air and they immediately reported to the people of Okbalia that King Anu Shah with his vizir and Melech Mahommed along with Ghete Afroz were sitting and carousing in mid air with a beautiful Houri for their cup bearer and the good people of Okbalia came flocking out to see the sight as if it had been to a procession a strange sight it was they saw the car was suspended in open air almost involved in a cloud of fragrant incense which spread far and wide its odorous perfumes and all around resounded the music if innumerable instruments the Modulation of which was strange and uncommon. But all the thrumming of the pipes and tabours could not distract the attention of the people from the situation of the king. “Alas the day!” cried they, “What shall we do without a king? Woe betide the time that we should lose him.” Aclender coolly observed,

“One year begins another ends
One rises up and one descends
Every one his fate must prove,
As written in the books above.”

Others were not quite so much distressed.

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