he cried wildly , ` go fetch me the mirror , for the white men are at hand . ' ` Woe is me , my father ! ' she sobbed . ` The Mirror is gone ! For I loved Butou the traitor , and he has stolen Sipao from me ! ' Then Gopani-Kufa calmed himself , and drew out Zengi-mizi from its rush basket . ' O spirit of my father ! ' he said , ` what now shall I do ? ' ' O Gopani-Kufa ! ' hummed the wasp , ` there is nothing now that can be done , for the words of the antelope which you slew are being fulfilled . ' ` Alas ! I am an old man -- I had forgotten ! ' cried the chief . ` The words of the antelope were true words -- my reward shall be my undoing -- they are being fulfilled ! ' Then the white men fell upon the people of Gopani-Kufa and slew them together with the chief and his daughter Shasasa ; and since then all the power of the Earth has rested in the hands of the white men , for they have in their possession Sipao , the Magic Mirror . Story of the King Who Would See Paradise Once upon a time there was king who , one day out hunting , came upon a fakeer in a lonely place in the mountains . The fakeer was seated on a little old bedstead reading the Koran , with his patched cloak thrown over his shoulders . The king asked him what he was reading ; and he said he was reading about Paradise , and praying that he might be worthy to enter there . Then they began to talk , and , by-and-bye , the king asked the fakeer if he could show him a glimpse of Paradise , for he found it very difficult to believe in what he could not see . The fakeer replied that he was asking a very difficult , and perhaps a very dangerous , thing ; but that he would pray for him , and perhaps he might be able to do it ; only he warned the king both against the dangers of his unbelief , and against the curiosity which prompted him to ask this thing .
However , the king was not XXXXX be turned from his purpose , and he promised the fakeer always to provided him with food , if he , in return , would pray for him .
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