Then the Rajah and the Ranee and Muchie Lal all went back to the palace together, and there was great rejoicing.
But when the fakir’s wife and her daughter heard that Balna was still alive, and that her husband had found her, they were so frightened that they ran away and hid themselves in the deep forest, and no one has ever heard of them again from that day to this.
FOOTNOTE:
[1] A long piece of cotton or silk cloth, forming the principal garment of Hindu women.
THE MAGIC RICE KETTLE
A KOREAN STORY
THERE was once an old man who was so poor he was scarcely able to buy food enough to keep him alive.
He had never married, and so he had no children, but he had a little dog and cat that lived with him, and these two he loved as though they were his own son and daughter. What little he had was shared with them, and if they were sometimes hungry, it was because he had nothing in the house to eat.