The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Title: Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 Author: Richard F. Burton Release Date: September, 2002 [Etext #3450] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on April 7, 2002] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 by Richard F. Burton ******This file should be named g1001108.txt or g1001108.zip***** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, g1001118.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, g1001108a.txt
"A Jackal once on a time, as he was prowling about the suburbs of a
town, slipped into an indigo-tank; and not being able to get out he laid
himself down so as to be taken for dead. The dyer presently coming and
finding what seemed a dead Jackal, carried him into the jungle and then
flung him away. Left to himself, the Jackal found his natural color
changed to a splendid blue. 'Really,' he reflected, 'I am now of a most
magnificent tint; why should I not make it conduce to my elevation?'
With this view, he assembled the other Jackals, and thus harangued
them:--
'Good people, the Goddess of the Wood, with her own divine hand, and
with every magical herb of the forest, has anointed me King. Behold the
complexion of royalty!--and henceforward transact nothing without my
imperial permission."
"The Jackals, overcome by so distinguished a color, could do nothing but
prostrate themselves and promise obedience. His reign, thus begun,
extended in time to the lions and tigers; and with these high-born
attendants he allowed himself to despise the Jackals, keeping his own
kindred at a distance, as though ashamed of them. The Jackals were
indignant, but an old beast of their number thus consoled them:--
"Leave the impudent fellow to me. I will contrive his ruin. These tigers
and the rest think him a King, because he is colored blue; we must show
them his true colors. Do this, now!--in the evening-time come close
Title: Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 Author: Richard F. Burton Release Date: September, 2002 [Etext #3450] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on April 7, 2002] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 by Richard F. Burton ******This file should be named g1001108.txt or g1001108.zip***** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, g1001118.txt VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, g1001108a.txt