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"ANOTHER WONDERFUL STORY."
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threw almonds and sugar upon the pair, until they entered their dwelling happy and contented.

el-Asmaïy adds: "And I never saw a more wonderful day than that the beginning of it weeping and mourning, the end of it joy and gladness."