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EP 234: Türkiye- The Laughing Apple and the Weeping Apple (Kunoz) · Sandman Stories Presents

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  Welcome back listeners to Sandman Stories Presents, a
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  folklore podcast where I read you to sleep or until the next
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  story. I'm your host, Dustin.
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  Today we are back in the book of Turkish folklore, written down
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  by Ignez Kunyos. It echoes earlier stories of
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  breaking a base, being cursed, the youngest doing his best, and
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  the older brothers being evil. You will see what I mean.
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  OK, let's begin. The Laughing Apple and the
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  Weeping apple in olden times lived a padi Shah who had three
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  sons. One day, as the youngest was
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  sitting in a kiosk near which was a spring, there came an old
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  woman to draw water. The boy threw a stone at her jug
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  and broke it, saying nothing. The old woman went away and
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  presently returned with another jug.
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  Again. The youth threw a stone and
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  shattered the jug. The woman went away as before
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  and returned 1/3 time. The boy saw her, threw a stone
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  at her jug and broke it as on the two previous occasions.
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  Now spake the old woman, may you fall in love with the laughing
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  apple and the weeping apple, she said.
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  With these words she disappeared.
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  A few days afterwards the words of the old woman began to take
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  effect, and the King's son was actually in love with the
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  Laughing Apple and the Weeping Apple.
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  Day by day he grew paler and weaker.
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  As soon as his father heard that he was ill, he sent for the
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  Hojas and physicians. But such an indisposition was
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  beyond their skill. One day a physician told the
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  Padi Shah that the youth was love sick.
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  Upon this the monarch went to his son and asked what ailed
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  him. The youth answered that he was
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  in love with the Laughing Apple and the Weeping apple.
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  What is to be done? Asked the father, Where are
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  those two apples to be found. Then said the youth, with your
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  permission, I will go and seek them.
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  The Parishah endeavoured to dissuade him, but the youth
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  remained obstinate, determined at all cost to go in search of
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  the apples, as his two older brothers were willing to
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  accompany him. The father at length consented,
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  and one day the party set out on their journey uphill, down Dale,
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  and across the plains. They wandered on until one day
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  they came to a spring where three roads met.
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  Here was a notice set up for the information of the travelers to
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  the effect that whoever took the first Rd. would return.
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  Whoever took the 2nd Rd. might return or not return.
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  Whoever took the third Rd. would never return.
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  The eldest of the brothers said that he would take the 1st Rd.
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  The middle brother elected to take the Doubtful Rd., while the
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  youngest was willing to take the road which promised no return.
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  Ere they separated, the youngest said, How may we know which of
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  us returns? First let us take off our rings
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  and put them under this stone, and as we return, let each one
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  take up his ring again. Thus they agreed and set out on
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  their several ways. The eldest walked on and on
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  until he reached the land where there was a swimming bath and he
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  engaged himself as a servant. The middle brother also wandered
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  on and on until he came to a land where there was a coffee
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  house. He entered and became an
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  attendant. Now we will see how the youngest
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  fared. After long journeying, he
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  arrived one day at a spring, where he saw an old woman
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  drawing water. He accosted her with the words.
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  Mother, could you give me shelter for just tonight?
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  She answered my son. I'll have only a small Hut, so
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  small that when I lie down, my feet are outside.
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  Where then could I put you? He showed the old woman a
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  handful of gold and begged her to find a room for him
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  somewhere. As soon as she caught sight of
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  the gold pieces, she said, Come, my son, I have a large house.
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  For whom should I make room if not for you?
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  Accordingly, they went home together.
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  As they sat at supper, the youth asked.
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  Tell me, mother, where can I meet?
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  Laughing Apple and Weeping Apple?
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  Hardly had the question left his lips.
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  Then the old woman struck him on the mouth, crying.
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  Silence. Their names are forbidden here.
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  The youth offered her another handful of gold on receiving
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  which she said, get up in the morning and cross that mountain
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  opposite. There you'll meet a shepherd,
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  the shepherd of the Palace, in which the Laughing Apple and
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  Weeping Apple are to be found. If you can win his favor, you
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  may gain admittance to the palace.
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  But take care, and as soon as you have obtained possession of
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  the apples, make haste back to me.
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  So next morning he went across the mountain, and there he found
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  a shepherd who was minding his sheep.
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  He greeted him cautiously, and the man returned the salutation.
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  While in conversation, the youth asked the shepherd about the
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  laughing apple and the weeping apple.
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  Hardly were the words out of his mouth.
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  Then the shepherd struck him so violently in the face that he
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  nearly fell. Why do you strike me?
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  Shepherd? Asked the youth.
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  What? You still ask questions.
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  I'll soon silence you, answered the shepherd, and again he
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  struck him in the face. But the youth pleaded more
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  earnestly than before, and gave the shepherd a handful of gold.
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  Being thus placated, the shepherd said to the youth, I
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  will now kill a sheep so that I may make a leathern bottle of
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  its skin. Slip you into the skin and when
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  it is evening time and I drive the sheep home to the palace,
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  you can go in with the sheep. At night, when everybody is
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  asleep, go up to the first floor and steal unobserved into the
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  chamber on the right. There lies the sultan's daughter
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  in bed, and the apples will be found on the shelf near her.
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  If you can get them away, it is well, but if not, it is all over
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  for you. The shepherd accordingly killed
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  a sheep, hid the youth in its skin, and drove the sheep into
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  the sarai. The youth succeeded in entering
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  without discovery. When night came on and everyone
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  was asleep, the youth stole forth from the skin of the
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  sheep, and crept carefully and slowly to the first floor.
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  Entering the chamber indicated by the shepherd.
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  He saw therein a bed on which lay a lovely maiden, beautiful
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  as the moon. At the full she had black
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  eyebrows, blue eyes, and golden hair.
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  Her equal surely did not exist in this world.
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  So beautiful was she that the youth was beside himself with
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  astonishment. While he gazed upon the maiden.
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  One of the two apples on the shelf began to laugh, the other
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  to weep bitterly. The youth shut the door quickly
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  and ran back to the sheep. The noise made by the apples
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  awakened the maiden. She got up, and seeing no one
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  looked about the room, scolded the apples for their stupidity,
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  and lay down again. After a while the maiden fell
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  asleep once more, and the youth went upstairs, opening the door
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  slowly and carefully, and entered.
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  He took a few steps toward the apples, and again one began to
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  laugh, the other to weep. The maiden woke up, but so no
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  one, you naughty creatures, She cried.
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  This is the second time you have waked me.
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  If you do so again, I shall cut through you.
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  Then she lay down again. When she was asleep, the youth
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  came again, opened the door, went straight to the apples, and
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  as he took them from the shelf, they began to laugh and weep.
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  But the youth ran off, and when the maiden awoke for the third
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  time, there was nothing to be seen.
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  You impudent creatures, she cried.
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  Have you gone mad that you have wake me up a third time?
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  She struck them both and lay down again.
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  A short time afterwards the youth came to the apartment a
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  fourth time, went to the shelf, and took down the apples, which
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  now made no sound. Being angry at the treatment
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  they had received quickly, he made his exit and returned to
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  the sheep. When morning dawned, the
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  shepherd led his flock to the mountain.
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  The youth then crept out of the sheepskin, gave the shepherd
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  another handful of gold, and, saying it was Allah's will, went
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  back to the House of the old woman.
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  When she saw the youth, she filled a large basin with water,
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  then killed a fowl and let its blood flow into the vessel.
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  This done, she put a plank into the water and set the youth upon
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  it. Now we will return to the Sarai.
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  When the Maiden awoke, she saw that the apples were no longer
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  on the shelf. Oh, what has become of my
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  apples? She exclaimed, searching
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  everywhere, but with no avail. Woe is me.
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  My apples have been stolen three times.
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  They woke me, but I did not understand.
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  A thief has been here. The maiden wept continually and
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  sighed. All my apples.
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  All my apples. When it came to the ears of her
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  father, the potty Shah, he ordered the gates of the city to
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  be closed immediately, and a thorough search was instituted.
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  But nowhere could the apples be found.
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  He sent for the astrologers who, consulting the stars, announced
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  that he who had stolen the apples was at that moment in a
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  ship on the sea of blood. Oh, potty Shah, he said.
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  They must be very far away, for we do not know where there is
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  such a sea of blood. The monarch realized that there
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  was no chance of catching the thief, so the city gates were
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  again opened. The youth presented the old
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  woman with a few more pieces of gold, and, commending her to
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  Allah, set off again in search of other adventures.
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  Some days later he found himself by the spring where he had
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  parted from his brothers. Lifting the stone under which
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  they had put their rings, he saw that neither of his brothers had
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  yet returned. Replacing his ring on his own
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  finger, he now set out along the road taken by his middle
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  brother, he wandered on and on, uphill and down Dale and across
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  the plains, drinking water from the river, resting in the
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  desert, listening to the sound of the nightingales, till one
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  day he came to a certain country.
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  Entering a town, he sought out a coffee house, and while drinking
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  coffee and smoking his tabuk, he recognized his middle brother
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  serving coffee. His brother, however, knew him
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  not. Calling him aside, he spoke to
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  him, asking him so many questions that at length the
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  elder brother recognized his brother.
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  Then they set off together and in due time arrived.
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  At the spring. The second ring was taken up and
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  the pair now resolved to look for their eldest brother.
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  They discovered him eventually and made themselves known to
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  him, and now all three would return to the spring.
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  On the way they asked the youngest whether he had secured
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  the apples. Of course he answered and he
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  brought them forth. They had hardly glanced at the
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  two apples. Then they fell in love with them
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  and begged their brother to let them hold the apples with their
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  hands. The youth complied and gave them
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  up. Being now in possession of the
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  magic fruit, the 2 elder resolved to kill their youngest
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  brother and divide the apples between them.
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  They went to a coffee house where they sat down in the
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  garden and after ordering something to eat, asked the
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  proprietor for a mat. In the garden was an open well.
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  This they covered with the mat, and the youngest brother, not
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  knowing of the well, sat on the mat and fell down to the bottom.
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  The others, affecting not to notice his disappearance, ate,
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  drank and smoked and eventually rose up and went away.
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  When they arrived home, their father asked what had become of
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  the youngest son. The brothers answered that they
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  had found the laughing apple and the weeping apple, but their
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  youngest brother had taken the way, from which there was no
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  returning, and consequently they had seen him no more.
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  The father shed tears, but hoped that his son was still living
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  and that he would find his way home before long.
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  Now when the youth fell down the well, which was dry, he was not
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  killed, but merely stunned. He soon returned to
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  consciousness and shouted several times in the hope of
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  being heard. The coffee housekeeper happened
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  to be taking a walk in the garden.
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  Hearing the cry, he sent a man down to bring up the youth.
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  Thanking his rescuer cordially, the youth went on his way, but
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  not to his father's house. Instead he offered himself as an
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  apprentice to a tinsmith. One day the potty Shah, whose
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  daughter's apples have been stolen, ordered a rosary of 1000
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  beads to be made, and this he sent by the hand of all of his
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  servants to all the countries. The magic power of this rosary
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  was such that he who had stolen the apples would, on telling the
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  beads, relate the full account of the incident.
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  At length the rosary reached the land where the three brothers
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  lived. When the youth heard of this, he
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  informed his master, the tinsmith, that he would tell the
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  beads. Word was sent to the potty
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  shah's servants who brought him the rosary and requested him to
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  begin. The youth said that he was
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  willing to do so, but only in the presence of the potty Shah
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  of that land. He was brought before the potty
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  Shah to whom the affair was explained.
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  The monarch consented to be a witness, and the rosary was
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  handed to the youth who began his task.
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  He related a complete account of his adventures in search of the
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  apples, and when he came to the part about his brothers casting
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  him down the well, the rosary was finished.
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  Now the potty Shah, recognizing his son, fell on his neck and
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  kissed him, weeping for joy. The strangers begged the potty
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  Shah to allow his youngest son to return with them, and consent
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  was given. Not, however, until the two
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  wicked brothers had been severely punished.
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  They started on their long journey, and after many days
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  they came to the home of the apples.
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  There the youth was taken before the potty Shah, who, as soon as
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  he saw him, felt his heart go out to the young Prince.
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  The monarch ordered him to tell the beads before him.
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  Once more, the youth related his adventures with the apples.
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  When the story was ended, the Parishah offered him his
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  daughter in marriage, so that both the youth and the maiden
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  may rejoice in the possession of the apples they both loved.
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  Very willingly the young Prince consented, and with festivities
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  lasting 40 days and 40 nights, the lovers were united as they
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  attained happiness. We will now seek our Divan the
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  End. I like how this story had
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  multiple twists and turns. Of course as the youngest I love
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  reading about the youngest saving the day and I also hope
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  that people stop breaking vases just for fun.
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  It seems like a way to get into a lot of trouble and the podcast
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  shout out is to the How to English.
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  TEFL podcast host Gav and M do a great job of breaking down
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  English and making it enjoyable for anyone who wants to learn
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  this crazy language. As a former EFL teacher, I quite
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  enjoy the ways that they bring fun into learning.
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  like a rating and a review and the listener shout out is to
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  Raleigh, NC, which are 38% of my listeners from the Tar Heel
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  State. Located in traditional Lumbee
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  territory, the city boasts of being the birth place of the
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  17th President, Andrew Johnson, the first one ever to be
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  impeached. After the Civil War, Raleigh had
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  a significant boom when black folks built up several schools
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  and universities aimed at improving education for all.
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  Then white supremacy hit and the city went back to being
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  controlled by a small number of wealthy white men.
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  Now the city sits in the Research Triangle and is back to
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  being one of the top cities to live in.
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  And if you haven't heard of the Lumbee before, you should go and
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  check out the time that they stamped the snot out of a bunch
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  of Klansmen. And so to my listeners in
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  Raleigh, I say thank you and good night.