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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Calm thyself, dear Bright-Wits," began Garrofat, "I am sorry to remind you that as your task is yet unfinished there is no reward due you. Your success, however, warrants me in demanding further proof of your boasted ability. I would not have Azalia wed to one who was but a lucky fool."
Garrofat sometimes made one of their little party; while Doola would occasionally thrust his long nose and ugly face into the circle. On the seventh day Bright-Wits presented himself at the Audience Chamber in response to the summons of Garrofat, who greeted him with mocking inquiries as to the success of his map making.
With an angry gesture, Bright-Wits was about to consign Doola and his game to oblivion; but at a nod from Ablano he signed for a slave to take the board from Doola. The reader may use six of the counters from the other game in working out this one of Bright-Wits' problems.
The lines represent the roads, and the eight spots the castles of the emirs. This matter must be adjusted at once, and as you are a suitor for the hand of Azalia I expect you to prove your claim to wisdom by solving the puzzle of the chart." When Garrofat had concluded, Bright-Wits, in obedience to the counsel of Ablano, expressed his willingness to attempt the solution of this new riddle.
They must be cut apart and rearranged so as to form a perfect checker board." "But there are empty spaces, and I can see but thirteen pieces here," objected Bright-Wits. "The missing piece hangs here at the side of the steps, and, as you see, contains three squares," explained Azalia. "This surely can be no difficult task to be so richly rewarded," cried Bright-Wits.
"Then accomplish it, thou Clever One," laughed Azalia. The reader who wishes to learn what chance Bright-Wits has of winning the promised reward, should cut out the rug on page at the back of the book, and try the task himself. Cut with a scissors or sharp knife along the heavy lines.
Trembling, but not from fear, the prince gravely saluted Garrofat and accepted the task and all its conditions. Then, in a voice that was calm and clear he asked, "Must I do this now?" "Now. At once," hissed Garrofat. "Now, while thy guardian spirit is gone." Then for the first time Bright-Wits noticed the absence of Ablano, the Brahman.
The table will be carried to your apartment, and I wish again to remind you that failure now means more than a whipping. Though you shall have that too, for good measure." "Give yourself no concern on that head," replied Bright-Wits boldly. "For, by Allah, the whips are not yet braided which shall sting my shoulders through any device of thine." "Bravely said, my dear Bright-Wits," cackled Doola.
If the reader will cut out the little circular disks which he will find at the back of the book, and place them at random on the numbered spots, leaving number ten vacant for his first move, he may find Bright-Wits' task to be less difficult than it looks. "Verily dost thou deserve success, my dear Prince," smirked Garrofat. "Your probation is almost over.
Now when morning came, Bright-Wits was escorted by a strong guard of slaves to the Hall of Audience from which he was to emerge victorious as the accepted suitor for the hand of Azalia, or with the whips of Garrofat's stout slaves singing in his ears and stinging his shoulders.
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