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Updated: May 16, 2025
H'ab Sliman said to them, "Give me a sickle." Someone said to him: "We who are strong have cut all day without being able to accomplish it, and do you think you will be capable of it? Let us see if you will find a new way to do it." At the moment when he gave the first blow a voice said to him: "Take care of me, O my brother!" The voice wept, the child began to weep, and it rained.
Its blood gushed upon a rose-tree, which became so large that it overspreads the whole village. Yesterday we worked all day to cut it down. We left it the size of a thread. This morning we find it as big as ever." "O my children," said the old man, "you are not yet punished enough. Take H'ab Sliman, perhaps he will have an expedient. Make him sleep at your house."
H'ab Sliman recognized his sister. "Laugh," he said. She laughed and the sun shone, and the people got dried. "Comb yourself," and legs of mutton fell. All those who were present regaled themselves on them. "Walk," and roses fell. "But what is the matter with you, my sister?" "What has happened to me." "What revenge does your heart desire?"
"Half a cock," for instance, has travelled into the various provinces of France, Ireland, Albania, among the Southern Slavs, and to Portugal, from whence it went to Brazil; but the Arabs do not know it, nor do they know Tom Thumb, which with the Khabyles becomes H'ab Sliman.
When he questioned H'ab Sliman, the child played deaf, the master struck him. One day his sister said to him: "What is the matter, O my brother? You seem to be sad." "Our schoolmaster punishes us," answered the child. "And why does he punish you?" inquired the young girl. The child replied: "After we have studied until evening he asks each of us what our sisters do.
She took her flight to the house of the schoolmaster and perched upon a tree near by. The people went to sow wheat. "O master of the field," she said, "is H'ab Sliman yet hanged?" She began to weep, and the rain fell until the end of the day's work. One day the people of the village went to find a venerable old man and said to him: "O old man, a bird is perched on one of our trees.
"Comb yourself," they told her, and there fell dust. "Walk," and nothing happened. "Laugh," and her front teeth fell out. All cried, "Hang H'ab Sliman!" Meanwhile some crows came flying near the young blind girl, and one said to her: "Some merchants are on the point of passing this way. Ask them for a little wool, and I will restore your sight."
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