49-2 - The Fisherman and His son (2 of 2) : 
The Fisherman's Son Gets Back the Sultaan's Daughter

Now after the Jew had lost his bird, he became like a mad person. He neither ate, nor drank, nor slept properly. He wandered all around till he came to the garden near the Sultaan's palace. He looked at it with surprise, as he knew that there was a large heap of ash in that place. He cried to himself - "Oh, Surely that man is here, otherwise no ordinary man could remove that heap from here." So he came back to his house, where he brought out a parcel of fine pearls, some emeralds and specimens of coral, and took them in front of the palace and started crying - "Buy pearls, emeralds, corals..." 

He kept saying thus for some time in front of the palace, that the Sultaan's daughter heard this. She asked her maid to bring what he was selling. The girl went out and asked the Jew what he was selling. The Jew replied, "Precious stones." The girl asked - "Will you give them for gold?" "No, I sell them for very old rings." She went back and told this to the Princess. The Princess asked her to bring the boy's old ring from his pen case while he slept. But she did not know the reality of that ring. She gave that ring to her maid to buy jewels from that Jew. The maid went out and gave that ring to him. The Jew was very happy to see that ring, he took that ring and gave all the jewels to her.

Then he went out on a voyage to the Seven Islands which were not far from the earth surrounding ocean. As he went there, he proceeded towards its middle. He sat there, took out the ring, and rubbed it. The Genie of the Ring spoke - "Here I stand in between your hands. What can I do for you?" He said to him - "I want that you bring the Princess here, and put the ash heap like it was before." So the Genie of the Ring did. Both Princess and the palace were transported to the Jew, and the ash heap was restored beneath the windows of the Sultaan's palace. Jew found the Princess very beautiful, so he started talking to her,  but the Princess would not talk to him.
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Now the fisherman's son was in a deep sleep. He woke up late in the morning and found himself on the heap of the ash. He ran away from that place with the fear that if the Sultaan saw him, he will surely cut his neck. He came to a coffee house and took shelter there. After a while he met a man who was leading a dog, a cat and a mouse. He was selling them crying for 10 pieces of Faddaas. He bought them from him and fed them some meat brought from a butchery. But he often spoke to himself in private about the ring and how to get his wife and palace back again.

The dog, the cat and the mouse heard him. One day when he took them to a butchery to feed them, he gave them meat and he himself sat aside in sad thoughts, groaning loudly. While thinking and groaning he slept. The dog said to the mouse and the cat - "He has bought us only for 10 Faddaas and he feeds us here everyday, but he has lost his ring and palace where his wife was. Let us help him in searching them. You sit on my back and then we can wander over seas and islands."

So the cat and mouse both sat on the dog's back, and they set off for their journey. They came to an island and there he found the palace in question. The dog said to them - "I will wait here and you go inside the palace. The cat will sit on the window and the mouse will enter the mansion and will search until she finds the ring. The mouse entered the palace and she found the Jew sleeping on his back and the Princess lying far from him. The mouse went near him and found that the ring was in his mouth under his tongue. Now how to recover it from there?

She looked around and found a vessel of oil. She dipped her tail in that oil, came to the Jew and put that oil dipped tail tip into his nostrils. He sneezed so violently that the ring came out of his mouth and fell on the floor. She was filled with joy that she will be able to return her master's prosperity. She took the ring and both, the cat and the mouse, went back to the dog, and the dog took them on his back back to his master. But when they were still swimming the cat said to the mouse - "Give me that ring, so that I can keep it for some time." The mouse gave it to the cat and she kept it for an hour or so.

Then the dog expressed his desire to keep the ring. They both said to him - "It will fall from your mouth." He said - "Give me the ring for some time, otherwise I will drown you both here." So they gave the ring to him and as he kept in his mouth it fell down in the ocean. The cat and the mouse said - "You have wasted our efforts." 

When they came to land they stood on the sea shore in sorrow. At that time a fish of strange colors appeared from the sea. He had the ring in his mouth. He gave that ring to them and asked them to give it to their master and tell him - "Once you you did a good deed by returning a fish to the sea, it did not go waste. The same fish has brought this ring from the sea." The dog took the ring to his master, and gave the ring to him. He was very happy with joy. The three told their story to him as how did they recover the ring from the Jew. And they told him the story of fish also.

He waited till night fell. He rubbed that ring and the Genie of the Ring spoke - "Here I stand in between your hands. What can I do for you?" He said - "You remove this hill of ash, bring my garden, palace and my wife back here." Everything was done within an hour. Then he went to the Princess' room where he found the Jew saying to his wife - "Now there is no escape for you." She cried - "The joy of my Lord is much more important for me." Hearing these words the boy jumped over the Jew, dragging along his neck, took him down and put him in the fire till he burnt completely.

Then he came back to his wife and asked her - "Why did you do so?" She wept and said - "There is no escape from the Fate. But now we are together. So let us forget everything." And they lived happily ever after.

End of Story No 49