So he drank and drank, and the water was not finished. So he drank and drank again, till he was so full of water that he died.
XIII
THE SULTAN'S SNAKE-CHILD
ONCE upon a time there was a Sultan and his Wazir, and those two men were very rich with much wealth, but neither had a son.
They took counsel together, "How will it be when we die? Who shall we leave all this wealth to and we are without children?"
The Sultan said to the Wazir, "We must go to a far country and look for some wise man who will tell us what to do."
So they went away, and wandered on and on for three years, till at last they met an old woman, bent with the weight of many years.
That woman said to them, "My grandsons, I know what you have come for."