of fire-rats; a fourth was to bring her the rainbow-jewel from the dragon's neck; and the last was to find the shell which the swallows keep hidden away in their nests.  Sad indeed were the hearts of these nobles as they went away, for it was now plain to them that the princess wished never to see them again.		THE STONE BOWL OF BUDDHA.  The prince who was to go to India to get the stone bowl of Buddha was a lazy man, and though he wished so very much to marry the princess, yet he thought he would never reach India alive if he had to cross all those hundreds and thousands of miles of sea, and even if he got there, how was he to know where to look for the bowl. However, he sent word to the princess that he had set out for India that very day, but he really went away and concealed himself for three years, the time it would take to go to India and come back again. At the end of the three years he went quietly to a little
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