(Fr. rouget), and was about to fry it, when it cried out that it was one of the princesses of the river, and he threw it back.  Then the wazir advised the king to send Mohammed to fetch the daughter of the king of the Green Country, seven years journey distant.  By the advice of the fish, Mohammed asked the king for a golden galley; and on reaching the Green Country, invited the inhabitants to inspect his galley.  At last the princess came down, and he carried her off.  When she found she was entrapped she threw her ring into the sea, which the fish caught.  When the king proposed to the princess, she first demanded her ring, which Mohammed immediately presented to the king.  Then she said it was the custom of her country on the occasion of a marriage to dig a trench from the palace to the river, which was filled with wood, and set on fire.  The bridegroom was required to walk through the trench to the river.  The wazir proposed that Mohammed should walk through the trench first; and by the fish’s advice, he stopped his ears, cried out, “In the name of God, the Compassioning, the Merciful,” threw himself into the trench, and returned from the river handsomer than before.  So the wazir said to the king, “Send for your son to go with us, that he may become as handsome as Mohammed.”  So the three threw themselves into the fire, and were burned to ashes, and Mohammed married the princess.

V.—­Histoire de Dalal.

Dalal was a little girl, the daughter of a king, who found a louse on her head, and put it into a jar of oil, where it remained till Dalal was twenty years old, when it burst the jar, and emerged in the form of a horned buffalo.  The king ordered the hide to be hung at the gate of the palace, and proclaimed that anyone who could discover what the skin was should marry his daughter, but whoever tried and failed should lose his head.  Thirty-nine suitors thus perished, when a Ghul passed by in the form of a man, who knew the secret.  He took Dalal home with him and brought her a man’s head, but as she would not eat it, he brought her a sheep.  He then visited her under the forms of her mother and her two aunts, and told her that her husband was a Ghul; but she refused to believe it until the third visit.  Then he was angry; but she begged him to let her go to the bath before she was eaten.  He consented, took her to a bath, and sat at the door; but she rubbed herself with mud, changed clothes with an old lupine-seller, and escaped for a time.  She reached a palace which she would not enter until she was invited by the Prince himself, who then proposed to marry her, but on the wedding day, her husband, having tracked her out, contrived that another Ghul in the form of a man should present him to the king in the form of a sheep, pretending that he had been reared in a harem, and would bleat so loud that nobody could sleep, unless he was tethered in the women’s apartments.  At night the Ghul carried off Dalal from beside the prince to the