There were three brothers who lived together in a house in a forest after the death of their parents. The oldest was named Jaafar, the second Faris, and the youngest Peter. The two older brothers always treated the small badly and blamed him for every mistake that happened. He would bear the bad treatment because he was small and weak, unable to defend himself against his two older strong brothers.
One day, while Peter was wandering in the forest collecting herbs, he saw an old woman approaching him, and asked him about his condition and the life he lived. He told the old woman his sad life he lived. The old woman said to him, “The solution, oh little one, is to get away from them and go to a place where you can collect your earnings and achieve your success.”
Peter was convinced by the old woman’s words. The next morning, he left the house he was raised in and lived a happy life in the shade of his father, for the matter was difficult for Peter at first, so he sat at the top of the wall facing the house and began to imagine his older sister. Suddenly, the old woman appeared behind him and began patting on his shoulder and whispered in his ear a strange matter, “Don’t be sad, oh boy. They were once good people. And now tell me what will you do now?”
Peter didn’t know the purpose she was serving or the goal he would strive to achieve from her, for he felt before that stones were falling on him from the sky like the falling stone. The old woman felt what was happening in the boy’s heart and laughed with tenderness while saying, “Call me when you learn, I’ll tell you what good will happen to you with a great stone, but don’t betray me when you become a knight.”
The boy listened well to the old woman’s advice and promised her that he would never betray her, and would carry her good always over his head. The old woman said, “When the sun sets this evening, go to the olive tree found at the intersection of roads. You’ll find a man sitting on the ground and beside him a beautiful tablecloth. Lift the tablecloth and take it with you, but beware of waking the sleeper. And walk with the tablecloth in front of people, and when they see it they’ll fall in love with it, and when they ask you for a feather from its feathers, give them.”
The old woman’s trick was to collect Peter the largest number of people, and take them to the king’s palace where lives the sad princess who no one can make her laugh, and the old woman had advised Peter that if he succeeded in making the princess laugh, the stone she used to wish for would fall on him.
And indeed the old woman’s trick worked for Peter’s benefit, and he immediately went at dawn to the olive tree and found everything as the old woman had described. He lifted the tablecloth and took it and went away. While he was walking, he saw some men working hard, and when they saw the tablecloth flying they liked it.
One of the men stretched out to touch her, and when he extended his hand, the tablecloth screamed and immediately the man said Peter as the old woman had described to him, so the tablecloth stuck on the man and he tried to rescue himself from it but without avail, which made the spectators laugh at their view.
And Peter continued his path and the people gathered around with the tablecloth, and every time he passed by one, he would laugh at him, until they passed a girl who felt sorry for the view of the men, so she extended her hand to rescue him from the tablecloth. When her hand touched the tablecloth, she screamed and immediately Peter said to her as the old woman had described to her, “Stick on them, oh tablecloth,” and the other girl stuck with the tablecloth and began laughing at everyone who saw her until Peter reached the chariot moving in the kingdom, and there he began doing some works with his magical tablecloth, and the village chief was one of the attendees.
He thought in the matter there was a strange trick and extended his hand to touch the tablecloth, and suddenly the other one stuck, and the situation remained like this until many stuck on the tablecloth and began moving and they were running behind him until they reached the gate of the king and there his daughter the princess was standing. And when her eyes fell on this view she burst into laughter with a high sound, until the king heard her coming as a messenger, for the princess had been sad always and no one could make her laugh.
The king ordered the arrest of that boy who caused his daughter to laugh, after he had launched screams from all those stuck on his tablecloth with the magical cloths that were with him. He announced a very large material reward from gold and pure jewels for whoever entered happiness on his daughter’s heart. In the meantime, the princess was joyful with the tablecloth, so she extended her hand to touch it, so the tablecloth screamed and immediately Peter said to her, “Stick on them, oh tablecloth.”
And from that moment, Peter and the princess never separated, for he helped her and married her away from her father the king, and immediately the tablecloth flew in the air and disappeared far away. Peter became a great man for him a status in the kingdom, and he never forgot a day the order of the old woman who was the reason for his success. And Peter lived with the beautiful princess in happiness and love with their royal wonderful forms.