The jackal followed his advice, he opened the sack, a dog jumped fiercely out.  When the jackal saw the dog he ran away, but the dog caught him and ate him up.

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SALOMON AND THE GRIFFIN

Our Lord Salomon was talking one day with the genii.  He said to them:  “There is born a girl at Dabersa and a boy at Djaberka.  This boy and this girl shall meet,” he added.  The griffin said to the genii:  “In spite of the will of the divine power, I shall never let them meet each other.”  The son of the King of Djaberka came to Salomon’s house, but hardly had he arrived when he fell ill; then the griffin carried away the daughter of the King of Djaberka and put her upon a big tree at the shore of the sea.  The wind impelled the prince, who had embarked.  He said to his companions, “Put me ashore.”  He went under the big tree and fell asleep.  The young girl threw leaves at him.  He opened his eyes, and she said to him:  “Beside the griffin, I am alone here with my mother.  Where do you come from?”

“From Djaberka.”

“Why,” she continued, “has God created any human beings except myself, my mother, and our Lord Salomon?”

He answered her, “God has created all kinds of human beings and countries.”

“Go,” she said, “bring a horse and kill it.  Bring also some camphor to dry the skin, which you will hang on the top of the mast.”  The griffin came, and she began to cry, saying, “Why don’t you conduct me to the house of our Lord Salomon?”

“To-morrow I will take you.”

She said to the son of the King, “Go hide inside the horse.”  He hid there.

The next day the griffin took away the carcass of the horse, and the young girl departed also.  When they arrived at the house of our Lord Salomon, the latter said to the griffin, “I told you that the young girl and the young man should be united.”

Full of shame the griffin immediately fled and took refuge in an island.

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ADVENTURE OF SIDI MAHOMET

One day Mouley Mahomet summoned Sidi Adjille to come to Morocco, or he would put him in prison.  The saint refused to go to the city until the prince had sent him his chaplit and his “dalil” as pledges of safety.  Then he started on the way and arrived at Morocco, where he neither ate nor drank until three days had passed.  The Sultan said to him: 

“What do you want at my palace?  I will give it to you, whatever it may be.”

Sidi Adjille answered, “I ask of you only one thing, that is, to fill with wheat the feed-bag of my mule.”

The prince called the guardian, and said to him, “Fill the feed-bag of his mule.”  The guardian went and opened the door of the first granary and put wheat in the feed-bag until the first granary was entirely empty.  He opened another granary, which was soon equally exhausted, then a third, and so on in this fashion until all the granaries of the King were emptied.  Then he wanted to open the silos, but their guardian went and spoke to the Sultan, together with the guardian of the granaries.