` Not so ! ' cried the sultan , ` but a shameful death you shall die ! ' And the princess fell on her knees , and begged she might die with him . ` You are out in your reckoning , Sir Sultan ! ' said Virgilius , whose patience was at an end , and he cast a spell over the sultan and his lords , so that they believed that the great river of Babylon was flowing through the hall , and that they must swim for their lives . So , leaving them to plunge and leap like frogs and fishes , Virgilius took the princess in his arms , and carried her over the airy bridge back to Rome . Now Virgilius did not think that either his palace , or even Rome itself , was good enough to contain such a pearl as the princess , so he built her a city whose foundations stood upon eggs , buried far away down in the depths of the sea . And in the city was a square tower , and on the roof of the tower was a rod of iron , and across the rod he laid a bottle , and on the bottle he placed an egg , and from the egg there hung chained an apple , which hangs there to this day . And when the egg shakes the city quakes , and when the egg shall be broken the city shall be destroyed . And the city Virgilius filled full of wonders , such as never were seen before , and he called its name Naples . -LRB- Adapted from ` Virgilius the Sorcerer . ' -RRB- MOGARZEA AND HIS SON There was once a little boy , whose father and mother , when they were dying , left him to the care of a guardian . But the guardian whom they chose turned out to be a wicked man , and spent all the money , so the boy determined to go away and strike out a path for himself . So one day he set off , and walked and walked through woods and meadows till when evening came he was very tired , and did not know where to sleep . He climbed a hill and looked about him to see if there was no light shining from a window . At first all seemed dark , but at length he noticed a tiny spark far , far off , and , plucking up his spirits , he at once went in search of it . The night was nearly half over before he reached the spark , which turned out to be a big fire , and by the fire a man was sleeping who was so tall he might have been a giant . The boy hesitated for a moment what he should do ; then he crept close up to the man , and lay down by his legs . When the man awoke in the morning he was much surprised to find the boy nestling up close to him . ` Dear me !
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