So they went in and told that woman, "We have had a vision, and in that vision we saw that you were going to have a child, a beautiful boy, who will be rich and clever, and will marry the daughter of the Wazir."
Now when the woman heard this she was wondrously pleased, for she had no child.
Then these men said, "There was, in our dream, the sacrifice of a black ox, before this came to pass."
So she said, "Take my ox and sacrifice him, that the vision may come true."
They replied, "Shall we kill him, though, while your husband is away?"
She said, "Take him, yes, take him, for my husband will be only too pleased when he knows for what purpose the ox has been slain; and he, too, desires a son."
So the youths took away the ox and killed it and feasted and made merry.
After three days the husband returned, and when he did not see his ox in its stall he asked his wife, "Where is the ox?"
She said to him, "It has been slaughtered."
"Why?"