“I did this, and she became a donkey! Yet I keep her, and take care of her, and pray you, even as we had mercy, to so have mercy upon this man.”
So the magician forgave the man, and let him go.
[1] This story was told by a Mahamedan woman, and I should think it was of Mahamedan origin, as no Hindu would even distantly refer to the slaughter of a cow, and such a story told by a Mahamedan to a Hindu would cause intense ill-feeling. [↑]
THE SNAKE AND THE FROG
A Rajah had two sons. The eldest ascended the throne after his father’s death, but fearing lest his brother might interfere with him, he ordered him to be killed.
The poor boy, hearing of this order, quietly left the house and escaped into the jungles, where he saw a snake with a frog in its mouth which it was trying to swallow.
As the young Rajah approached, he heard the frog say: “Oh, if God would only send some one to rescue me from the snake, how thankful I should be.”
The Rajah, full of pity, threw a stone at the snake, and it immediately released the frog, which hopped away.