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 with me ; let us go and bury it . ' Night and day they travelled , till the sultan came to the well where the gazelle had been thrown . And it was a large well , built round a rock , with room for many people ; and the sultan entered , and the judges and the rich men followed him . And when he saw the gazelle lying there he wept afresh , and took it in his arms and carried it away . When the three slaves went and told their mistress what the sultan had done , and how all the people were weeping , she answered : ' I too have eaten no food , neither have I drunk water , since the day the gazelle died . I have not spoken , and I have not laughed . ' The sultan took the gazelle and buried it , and ordered the people to wear mourning for it , so there was great mourning throughout the city . Now after the days of mourning were at an end , the wife was sleeping at her husband 's side , and in her sleep she dreamed that she was once more in her father 's house , and when she woke up it was no dream . And the man dreamed that he was on the dust-heap , scratching . And when he woke , behold ! that also was no dream , but the truth . -LRB- Swahili Tales . -RRB- HOW A FISH SWAM IN THE AIR AND A HARE IN THE WATER .
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