Excerpt from The Book of Sindibād: Or, the Story of the King, His Son, the Damsel, and the Seven Vazīrs; From the Persian and Arabic; With Introduction, Notes, and Appendix The Advantages of Travel The Four Liberators The Damsel's Fate, etc. The Fox and the People Destiny, or the Son of the Sage The Woman and the Abbot The Revolt of Absalom The Death of Absalom The Disguised Young Man Hunchbacks Ahmed the Orphan The Drop of Honey The Changed Sex The Goldsmith and the Singing Girl The Forbidden Doors; or, Curiosity The Lover in the Chest The Birds: slave-boy, etc. The Lady and her The Amazon the seven wise masters Introduction The Tree and its Branch The Knight and the Greyhound The Boar and the Herdsman Hippocrates' Nephew Robbery of the King's Treasury The Husband Shut Out The King and his Seneschal The Wise Old Man Merlin's Pillar The Burgess and Magpie The Seven Evil Counsellors The Widow who was Comforted The Siege of Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.