THE MAGIC TURBAN, THE MAGIC WHIP, AND THE MAGIC CARPET
Once upon a time that was no time there were
two brothers. Their father and mother had died
and divided all their property between them. The
elder brother opened a shop, but the younger brother,
who was but a feather-brain, idled about and did
nothing; so that at last, what with eating and drinking
and gadding abroad, the day came when he had
no more money left. Then he went to his elder
brother and begged a copper or two of him, and
when that all was spent he came to him again, and
so he continued to live upon him.
At last the elder brother began to grow tired of this waste, but seeing that he could not be quit of his younger brother, he turned all his possessions into sequins, and embarked on a ship in order to go into another kingdom. The younger brother, however, had got wind of it, and before the ship
