The Flying Trunk (3) [The Flying Trunk]
The Flying Trunk (3)
He could do that quite well, for all the Turks were the dressed just as he wasー in a dressing-gown and slippers.
He met a nurse with a little child.
" Hello ! " he said, " what is that great castle there close to the town ? The one with the windows so high up ?"
" The Sultan's daughter lives there, " she answered.
"It is prophesied that she will be very unlucky in her husband, and so no-one is allowed to see her except when the Sultan and Sultana are nearby. "
" Thank you, " said the merchant's son.
He went into the wood, sat on his trunk, flew on to the roof, and crept through the window into the Princess's room.
She was lying on the sofa asleep, and was so beautiful that the young merchant had to kiss her.
Then she woke up and was very much frightened, but he said he was a Turkish god who had come through the air to see her, and that pleased her very much.
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