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THE JOGI’S PUNISHMENT

In the morning the prince called his chief wazir and ordered him to shut up in the chest in which the princess had been found a great monkey that lived chained up in the palace, and to take the chest back to the river and set it afloat once more and watch what became of

The terrible end of the Jogi
The terrible end of the Jogi

it. So the monkey was caught and put into the chest, and some of the prince’s servants took it down to the river and pushed it off into the water. Then they followed secretly a long way off to see what became of it.

Meanwhile the jogi’s two pupils watched and watched for the chest until they were nearly tired of watching,

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