But he answered , ` You are mad , my wife . ' The old woman stayed no longer , and went back to the gazelle , followed secretly by the mistress , who called a maidservant and bade her take some milk and rice and cook it for the gazelle . ` Take also this cloth , ' she said , ` to cover it with , and this pillow for its head . And if the gazelle wants more , let it ask me , and not its master . And if it will , I will send it in a litter to my father , and he will nurse it till it is well . ' And the maidservant did as her mistress bade her , and said what her mistress had told her to say , but the gazelle made no answer , but turned over on its side and died quietly . When the news spread abroad , there was much weeping among the people , and Sultan Darai arose in wrath , and cried , ` You weep for that gazelle as if you wept for me ! And , after all , what is it but a gazelle , that I bought for an eighth ? ' But his wife answered , ` Master , we looked upon that gazelle as we looked upon you . It was the gazelle who came to ask me of my father , it was the gazelle who brought me from my father , and I was given in charge to the gazelle by my father . ' And when the people heard her they lifted up their voices and spoke : ` We never saw you , we saw the gazelle . It was the gazelle who met with trouble here , it was the gazelle who met with rest here . So , then , when such an one departs from this world we weep for ourselves , we do not weep for the gazelle . ' And they said furthermore : ` The gazelle did you much good , and if anyone says he could have done more for you he is a liar ! Therefore , to us who have done you no good , what treatment will you give ? The gazelle has died from bitterness of soul , and you ordered your slaves to throw it into the well . Ah ! leave us alone that we may weep . ' But Sultan Darai would not heed their words , and the dead gazelle was thrown into the well . When the mistress heard of it , she sent three slaves , mounted on donkeys , with a letter to her father the sultan , and when the sultan had read the letter he bowed his head and wept , like a man who had lost his mother .
And he commanded horses to be saddled , and called the governor and the judges and all the rich men , and said : ` Come now XXXXX me ; let us go and bury it . '
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