ground of India, he drew from beneath his robe a little jar of
glass.

"Zadok," said he, "I command thee to enter this jar."

Then the Demon knew that now his turn had come. He besought and
implored the Wise Man to have mercy upon him; but it was all in
vain. Then the Demon roared and bellowed till the earth shook and
the sky grew dark overhead. But all was of no avail; into the jar
he must go, and into the jar he went. Then the Wise Man stoppered
the jar and sealed it. He wrote an inscription of warning upon
it, and then he buried it in the ground.

"Now," said Aben Hassen the Wise to the Talisman of Solomon,
"have I done everything that I should?"

"No," said the Talisman, "thou shouldst not have brought the jar
of golden money and the jar of silver money with thee; for that
which is evil in the greatest is evil in the least. Thou fool!
The treasure is cursed! Cast it all from thee while there is yet
time."

"Yes, I will do that, too, " said the Wise Man. So he buried in
the earth the jar of gold and the jar of silver that he had
brought with him, and then he stamped the mould down upon it.
After that the Wise Man began his life all over again. He bought,
and he sold, and he traded, and by-and-by he became rich. Then he
built himself a great house, and in the foundation he laid the
jar in which the Demon was bottled.