She and Jamila , set up house together , and Dil-aram and Gul set up theirs ; and the prince passed the rest of his life with the four in perfect happiness , and in pleasant and sociable entertainment . Now has been told what the rose did to the cypress . Finished , finished , finished ! Footnotes : -LSB- Footnote 1 : Translated from two Persian MSS . in the possession of the British Museum and the India Office , and adapted , with some reservations , by Annette S. Beveridge . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 2 : Jessamine , ruby-decked . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 3 : Life-giving diamond . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 4 : World-gripper . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 5 : Love-enkindler . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 6 : Rose-cheek . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 7 : Heartsease . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 8 : Elias . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 9 : Pleasure . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 10 : Thirty-birds . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 11 : Pomp and Pride . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 12 : Of happy omen . -RSB- Ball-carrier and the Bad One Far , far in the forest there were two little huts , and in each of them lived a man who was a famous hunter , his wife , and three or four children . Now the children were forbidden to play more than a short distance from the door , as it was known that , away on the other side of the wood near the great river , there dwelt a witch who had a magic ball that she used as a means of stealing children . Her plan was a very simple one , and had never yet failed . When she wanted a child she just flung her ball in the direction of the child 's home , and however far off it might be , the ball was sure to reach it .
Then , as soon as the child saw it , the ball would begin rolling slowly back XXXXX the witch , just keeping a little ahead of the child , so that he always thought that he could catch it the next minute .
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