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The days laughed at one of the misers, and he became a governor. This governor, despite his miserliness, was hated. People didn’t befriend him, didn’t love him, and couldn’t tolerate his company. Every night, he would send for Ashab to keep him company and make him laugh. But Ashab would flee from him or hide at one of the neighbors because he would stay with this governor all night, talking to him and making him laugh without finding at the end of the night a morsel to satisfy his hungry stomach or a dirham to buy something for his children. ...

The branch felt joyful because the two yellow birds had managed to build their nest above it. Then the mother bird rested over her eggs with tenderness, while the father bird stood beside her, looking at her. A smile filled his beak and didn’t leave him. He remembered how he and his wife, the bird, had managed to build their nest, straw by straw. The bird remembered how they had lined this nest with soft feathers. Truly, this feathers had been soaked with their sweat, but it was delicious and fruitful labor. After two weeks of this life, on a beautiful spring morning, one of the chicks began pecking the eggshell, then stretched its soft beak and began chirping, as if it wanted to inform nature of its arrival to this life so she would open her arms to it. ...

Once there was a crow who was always thinking that God Almighty had given all birds colors. Once he saw peacock feathers fallen on the ground. He thought and said: “I must place these among my feathers. After that, I will become a peacock, then I will leave the crows and become one of the peacocks.” The crow felt overwhelming happiness. He quickly gathered the peacock feathers and placed them one by one among the feathers on his body. He began walking like a peacock. When one of the older crows saw him, he said to him: “Everything you do is useless. A person doesn’t become a peacock just by placing some peacock feathers on himself. Understand.” ...

After years of working not successful there was a merchant who liked his luck, and one time while he was walking with his donkey and taking with him what was annoying him, when the donkey’s wife knew that the merchant was very beautiful of faces and great of wealth, he became very jealous and went out of him very surprisingly strangely of a variety of donkeys and mules and chickens with some of them on some of them, and there was among them a donkey with green color and the other one red, and in every donkey there was some strange faces, each of them with the color of its donkeys, and he said to the walking, “Calm down, I have faced some of the hard things when I was with donkeys, so he is very patient under what he faces and gave the donkeys to him, so the merchant became angry at what but the walking comforted him that these donkeys are donkeys of the donkeys. ...

The Tailor Lady suffered greatly from her mischievous children. They would race, play, climb the mountain, roll down the hill, jump from walls, and scatter water around them. They exhausted her greatly. One would say to her: “Mom, sew the pants for me.” Another would say: “Where are my socks?” The mother could no longer bear their mischief, so she ordered them to sleep. “Woe is me, I will lose my mind.” The Tailor Lady was not a successful woman in managing her household affairs. Spiders were nesting in it. She said: “How do I clean my house while taking care of mischievous children?” The Tailor Lady looked at the spiders and said: “Someday I will remove you all.” But the spiders said: “What if we told you that we will send her a girl to help her named Pearl the Weaver.” ...

Once there was a tree with a wide trunk and countless branches. It was located in the middle of dry land and was used as a place of shelter and rest for hundreds and thousands of travelers. Since it was near four cities and many villages, the tree’s location became an ideal meeting point for travelers. One day, two travelers arrived at the tree after walking for a long time. They were heading to one of the towns near the tree. Their travel day was hot and sunny, so they felt happy about the existence of this tree in this place so they could rest for some time. Then they fell asleep under the tree, enjoying the wonderful weather and the cool air. ...

It is told that in ancient times, in the old days, there was a great king of prestige and power named King Al-Nu’man, son of King Hassan. King Al-Nu’man was king of a great, rich country, filled with all kinds of blessings and colors. He had everything that came to mind and everything that didn’t come to mind. But he was neither happy nor at peace of mind. Why? Because he had heard of something strange that existed only in the Land of Wonders! ...

There was an elephant living in the forest who was extremely proud of his huge size. He usually caused problems for other animals and mocked them. One day, while he was walking in the forest, he saw a parrot sitting on a tree. The elephant said to him: “What is this? Didn’t you see me coming? I am the strongest animal in the forest. You must bow before me.” The parrot said to him: “Never, I can’t.” The elephant said to him: “You refuse, you fool? Then I will teach you to respect me.” The parrot refused to bow to the elephant. The elephant uprooted the entire tree and began shaking it, and the parrot couldn’t sit on it and flew away. The elephant said: “Go away. Did you see now what I can do?” Then he said: “You are all weak before me.” The arrogant elephant walked away and went to the river as usual to drink water. Beside the river, there was an ant living in a small ant hill. ...

There were four small seeds who enjoyed a good friendship with each other. Once, the winds stopped them, and they finally landed in the forest. They remained there hidden in the ground, hoping to be able to grow and become beautiful trees. But when the first seed began to germinate, everyone realized it wouldn’t be an easy task in that forest. A group of monkeys lived there, and the smallest monkeys armed themselves by throwing bananas at any plant they noticed had begun to grow. Using this game, the monkeys learned how to throw bananas, and it also kept the forest free of vegetation cover. ...

Once upon a time, there were three cows living together on a green farm near the forest. There was the white cow and the black cow, while the last one was reddish-brown. These cows loved each other. They would graze together on the farm, then sleep beside each other. One day, a reddish-brown lion went for a stroll outside the forest and became near the farm of the three cows. He was hungry, looking for prey to eat. When he saw those cows, he felt happy about finding prey, but he couldn’t attack any of them because they were constantly together. So the lion sat behind a rock patiently, waiting for the cows to separate from each other so he could catch one of them. ...