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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt:...had passed between the King and himself, and asked her advice as to how to accomplish the first task he had been given. "Do not be anxious, dear," said his wife, "thou knowest that my father is the King of birds, and all the birds of the forest, at his command, will come and pick the seeds up and collect them into a sack." She then informed her father of everything, and asked for his assistance on behalf of her husband. In the twinkling of an eye, all the birds of the world came flocking to the field, and picked up all the seeds overnight, but the King of the birds found one tiny little grain missing. He took the birds to task for it, but, after they had all protested their innocence, he searched them one and all, when lo! the missing seed was found concealed in the blind eye of one of them. He was punished, all the other birds attacking him with their beaks and claws. At dawn on the following morning, the hundredweight of seed was produced before the King, and an army of royal auditors and accountants were busy all day counting up the seeds, and, wonder of wonders! they were found to be exactly correct in number and weight. The first task having been accomplished, the King called the barber before him, and, telling him that the first task had been successfully performed, asked him what the next task should be. The barber scratched his head for a minute, and then out came this ingenious suggestion: "Thy Majesty," said he, nothing daunted, "canst now ask the husband of the fair lady to fetch thee a bowl of tigress's milk. Of course, he will be eaten up by the tigress in the attempt to get her milk, and then the lady shall be thine." Accordingly, the King told the Gorur's son-in-law to get him a bowl of tigress's milk,...