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Only, if you go to seek her, take with you this man with whom she has spoken that he may show you the way. 'Yes; that is the best plan, replied Dschemil; 'so give me food, and hand me my sword, and we will set out directly. But the stranger answered: 'I am not going to waste a whole month in leading you to the castle! If it were only a day or two's journey I would not mind; but a month no!
It is only at night that he ever eats. So the stranger went on silently with his food. Suddenly one of Dschemil's brothers called out and said: 'Dschemil, bring us some water! And the stranger remembered his message and said: 'Is there a man here named "Dschemil"? I lost my way in the desert, and came to a castle, and a maiden looked out of the window and...
'Ah, good sir, replied the Jew, 'for a whole month I have been travelling, and I am too tired to move. 'Which way did you come? asked Dschemil. 'From out there, answered the Jew pointing behind him. 'And you have been travelling for a month, you say? Well, did you see anything remarkable? 'Yes, good sir; I saw a castle, and lay down to rest under its shadow.
And an ogre woke me, and told me to come to this town, where I should find a young man called Dschemil, and a girl called Dschemila. 'My name is Dschemil. What does the ogre want with me? 'He gave me some presents for Dschemila. How can I see her? 'Come with me, and you shall give them into her own hands.
Then she told me that the ogre, in whose castle she dwelt, brought in water always from the same side, and that if I too went that way most likely I should come to it. But before I started she begged me to go to her native town, and if I met a man called Dschemil I was to say to him, "Dschemila greets you, from the castle which lies far away, and is rocked by the wind.
So she ran on a little way, and then stopped. 'He is only a few yards away now, she said, and Dschemil flung the hatchet on the ground, and it turned into a lake. 'I will drink, and my dog shall drink, till it is dry, shrieked the ogre, and the dog drank so much that it burst and died. But the ogre did not stop for that, and soon the whole lake was nearly dry.
'I swear by your head, queen of my heart, that I have not found you only to lose you again! If I must die, well, I must! 'Oh, what can I do for you? 'Anything you like! 'If I let you down a cord, can you make it fast under your arms, and climb up? 'Of course I can, said he. So Dschemila lowered the cord, and Dschemil tied it round him, and climbed up to her window.
'Come with me then for three days, said Dschemil, 'and put me in the right road, and I will reward you richly. 'Very well, replied the stranger, 'so let it be. For three days they travelled from sunrise to sunset, then the stranger said: 'Dschemil? 'Yes, replied he. 'Go straight on till you reach a spring, then go on a little farther, and soon you will see the castle standing before you.
'Did you not see me before my transformation? and did you not watch it happen under your very eyes, when the ogre bewitched me? 'What shall I do? said Dschemil. 'If I take you into the town, everyone will laugh, and say, "Is that a new kind of toy you have got? It has hands like a woman, feet like a woman, the body of a woman; but its head is the head of an ass, and its hair is fur."
For a whole month he travelled, till at last he reached the town where Dschemil dwelt, and as luck would have it, there was the young man sitting before his door with his beard unshaven and his shaggy hair hanging over his eyes. 'Welcome, stranger, said Dschemil, as the man stopped. 'Where have you come from? 'I come from the west, and go towards the east, he answered.
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