The Arabian Nights

had robbed me of all I possessed. “But tell me,” replied he, “can you shoot with a bow?” I answered, that the bow was one of my exercises in my youth. He gave me a bow and arrows, and, taking me behind him upon an elephant, carried me to a thick forest some leagues from the town. We penetrated a great way into the wood, and when he thought fit to stop, he bade me alight; then shewing me a great tree, “Climb up that,” said he,


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had robbed me of all I possessed. “But tell me,” replied he, “can you shoot with a bow?” I answered, that the bow was one of my exercises in my youth. He gave me a bow and arrows, and, taking me behind him upon an elephant, carried me to a thick forest some leagues from the town. We penetrated a great way into the wood, and when he thought fit to stop, he bade me alight; then shewing me a great tree, “Climb up that,” said he,


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