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remember it,” says the genic, “but that shall not hinder me
from killing thee: I have only one favour to grant thee,”—
“And what is that 2” says the fisherman.—“It is,” answers the
genie, “to give thee thy choice, in what manner thou wouldst
have me take thy life.” —“ But wherein have I offended you?”
replies the fisherman. ‘Js that your reward for the good
services I have done you?” —‘‘I cannot treat you otherwise,”
says the genie; and, that you may be convinced of it, hearken
to my story. I am one of those rebellious spirits that opposed
Solomon, the great prophet, and submitted not to him. Sacar
and I were the only genii that would never be guilty of a mean
thing ; and to avenge himself, that great monarch sent Asaph,
the son of Barakhia, his chief minister, toapprehend me. That
was accordingly done. Asaph seized my person, and brought
me by force before his master’s throne.

“Solomon, the son of David, commanded me to quit my way
of living, to acknowledge his power, and to submit myself to his
command: I bravely refused to obey, and told him, I would
rather expose myself to his resentment, than swear fealty, and
submit to him as he required. ‘To punish me, he shut me
up in this copper vesscl, and gave it to one of the genii wha
submitted to him, with orders to throw me into the sea, which
was executed to my sorrow. During the first hundred years’
imprisonment, I swore that if any one would deliver me before
the hundred years expired, I would make him rich, even after
his death, but that century ran out, and nobody did the good
office. During the second I made an oath, that I would open
all the treasures of the earth to any onc that should set me at
liberty ; but with no better success. In the third, I promised
to make my deliverer a potent monarch, to be always near him
in spirit, and to grant him every day three requests of what
nature soever they might be; but this century ran out as well