When he had finished it he made a door at one end, and then he said to the lion, "Enter in, my master, and see if the house suits you."
So the lion walked in, and the man shut the door and cried, "Now do you know me? I am that creature called man."
Then he took his axe and rained blows on the lion until he had killed him.
When Bata saw this she flew away, and this was the beginning of her sitting always on the water, even to sleeping on the water in the middle of a pool, for fear of man who killed her husband.
XXVIII
THE SULTAN'S DAUGHTER
LONG ago in olden times there was a Sultan, and he had a daughter beautiful as the moon at its fulness.
This Sultan said that he would only marry his daughter to a man of wisdom. So to all who came to seek his daughter's hand he asked three questions.