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very spot where the magician had left
him. Scarcely daring to believe his good

fortune, he rose up trembling, and seeing
the city lying at some distance, made his

way back by the same road he had come.
A long weary road he found it to his

mother’s door, and when he reached it,
he was fainting from hunger and fatigue.
His mother, however, whose heart

had been almost broken by the loss of
him, received him kindly and joyfully,

and refreshed him with food and wine.
When he was better again, he told his

mother all, as it had come about, and
showed her the lamp and the coloured

fruits and the wonderful ring on his
finger. His mother, however, thought