` 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 to be turned from his purpose , and he promised the fakeer always to provided him with food , if he , in return , would pray for him . To this the fakeer agreed , and so they parted . Time went on , and the king always sent the old fakeer his food according to his promise ; but , whenever he sent to ask him when he was going to show him Paradise , the fakeer always replied : ` Not yet , not yet ! ' After a year or two had passed by , the king heard one day that the fakeer was very ill -- indeed , he was believed to be dying . Instantly he hurried off himself , and found that it was really true , and that the fakeer was even then breathing his last . There and then the king besought him to remember his promise , and to show him a glimpse of Paradise . The dying fakeer replied that if the king would come to his funeral , and , when the grave was filled in , and everyone else was gone away , he would come and lay his hand upon the grave , he would keep his word , and show him a glimpse of Paradise . At the same time he implored the king not to do this thing , but to be content to see Paradise when God called him there . Still the king 's curiosity was so aroused that he would not give way . Accordingly , after the fakeer was dead , and had been buried , he stayed behind when all the rest went away ; and then , when he was quite alone , he stepped forward , and laid his hand upon the grave !
Instantly the ground opened , and the astonished king , peeping XXXXX , saw a flight of rough steps , and , at the bottom of them , the fakeer sitting , just as he used to sit , on his rickety bedstead , reading the Koran !
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