When he turned it twice , Fairies came down from the sky to do whatever he told them ; and when he turned it three times , the very great angel Azrael of the Sword came dressed as a water-carrier , and told him the news of the three worlds , Above -- Below -- and Here . And yet Suleiman-bin-Daoud was not proud . He very seldom showed off , and when he did he was sorry for it . Once he tried to feed all the animals in all the world in one day , but when the food was ready an Animal came out of the deep sea and ate it up in three mouthfuls . Suleiman-bin-Daoud was very surprised and said , ' O Animal , who are you ? ' And the Animal said , ' O King , live for ever ! I am the smallest of thirty thousand brothers , and our home is at the bottom of the sea . We heard that you were going to feed all the animals in all the world , and my brothers sent me to ask when dinner would be ready . ' Suleiman-bin-Daoud was more surprised than ever and said , ' O Animal , you have eaten all the dinner that I made ready for all the animals in the world . ' And the Animal said , ' O King , live for ever , but do you really call that a dinner ? Where I come from we each eat twice as much as that between meals . ' Then Suleiman-bin-Daoud fell flat on his face and said , ' O Animal ! I gave that dinner to show what a great and rich king I was , and not because I really wanted to be kind to the animals . Now I am ashamed , and it serves me right . Suleiman-bin-Daoud was a really truly wise man , Best Beloved . After that he never forgot that it was silly to show off ; and now the real story part of my story begins . He married ever so many wifes . He married nine hundred and ninety-nine wives , besides the Most Beautiful Balkis ; and they all lived in a great golden palace in the middle of a lovely garden with fountains . He did n't really want nine-hundred and ninety-nine wives , but in those days everybody married ever so many wives , and of course the King had to marry ever so many more just to show that he was the King . Some of the wives were nice , but some were simply horrid , and the horrid ones quarrelled with the nice ones and made them horrid too , and then they would all quarrel with Suleiman-bin-Daoud , and that was horrid for him .
But Balkis the Most Beautiful never quarrelled with XXXXX .
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