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Title: The olive fairy book
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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traveller arrived in a boat down the river Nile,and after questioning the people as to the reason of theirdowncast looks, declared that he was court physician tothe king of a far country, and would, if allowed, examinethe eyes of the blind man. He was at once admittedinto the royal presence, and after a few minutes of care-ful study announced that the case, though very serious,was not quite hopeless. Somewhere in the Great Sea, he said, there existsa Golden-headed Fish. If you can manage to catch thiscreature, bring it to me, and I will prepare an ointmentfrom its blood which will restore your sight. For ahundred days I will wrait here, but if at the end of thattime the fish should still be uncaught, I must return tomy own master. The next morning the young prince set forth in questof the fish, taking with him a hundred men, eachman carrying a net. Quite a little fleet of boais wasawaiting them, and in these they sailed to the middleof the Great Sea. During three months they laboured
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N 2 THE GOLDEN-HEADED FISH 181 diligently from sunrise to sunset, but though they caughtlarge multitudes of fishes, not one of them had a goldenhead. It is quite useless now, said the prince on thevery last night. Even if we find it this evening, thehundred days will be over in an hour, and long beforeAve could reach the Egyptian capital the doctor will beon his way home. Still, I will go out again, and castthe net once more myself. And so he did, and at thevery moment that the hundred days were up, he drewin the net with the Golden-headed Eish entangled in itsmeshes. Success has come, but, as happens often, it is toolate, murmured the young man, who had studied in theschools of philosophy; but, all the same, put the fish inthat vessel full of water, and we will take it back to showmy father that we have done what we could. But whenhe drew near the fish it looked up at him with suchpiteous eyes that he could not make up his mind tocondemn it to death. For he knew well that, thoughthe

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