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Her sister, Dunyazad, said to her,"Pray finish for us thy story;"

and she answered, "I will if the King give me leave." "Say on,"

quoth the King. And she continued:-It hath reached me, O

auspicious King, that when the Fisherman said to the Ifrit, "If

thou hadst spared me I would have spared thee, but nothing would

satisfy thee save my death; so now I will do thee die by jailing

thee in this jar and I will hurl thee into this sea." Then the

Marid roared aloud and cried, "Allah upon thee, O Fisherman,

don't!