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Updated: June 17, 2025
It did not take long for Hassebu to find out that his companions had left him to die in the pit, but he had a brave heart, and hoped that he might be able to find a way out for himself. So he at once began to explore the pit and found it ran back a long way underground. And by night he slept, and by day he took a little of the honey he had gathered and ate it; and so many days passed by.
'Then stay for a little with me, said the king, and he bade his soldiers bring water from the spring and fruits from the forest, and to set them before the guest. For some days Hassebu rested and feasted in the palace of the King of the Snakes, and then he began to long for his mother and his own country. So he said to the King of the Snakes, 'Send me home, I pray.
But the King of the Snakes answered, 'When you go home, you will do me evil! 'I will do you no evil, replied Hassebu; 'send me home, I pray. But the king said, 'I know it. If I send you home, you will come back, and kill me.
Seeing this, the men said to Hassebu, 'We will put a rope under your arms, and let you down, so that you may scrape up all the honey that is left, and when you have done we will lower the rope again, and you shall make it fast, and we will draw you up.
'I do not know it! answered he, but the Vizir did not believe him, and had him bound and beaten till his back was all torn. Then Hassebu cried, 'Loose me, that I may take you. They went together a long, long way, till they reached the palace of the King of the Snakes. And Hassebu said to the King: 'It was not I: look at my back and you will see how they drove me to it.
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